The 'TrumpKennedyCenter.org' website is taken. This comedian owns it. [View all]

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Now THIS is how it's done

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/trumpkennedycenter-org-website-taken-comedian-174317463.html

“As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building,’” explains Toby Morton, a comedy writer with “South Park” and “Mad TV” credits who buys political domains and turns them into satirical websites as a form of activism. All year, Morton followed news of Trump’s takeover of the institution - how the president purged many of its existing board members, replaced them with loyalists, then announced plans to personally host the Kennedy Center Honors - and in August he snapped up the rights to both trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com.

“The rest,” he writes in an email interview with The Post, “followed on schedule.”

It’s not uncommon for people to speculatively buy website domains that could be valuable one day, often in an attempt to turn a profit. Registering a new domain usually costs around $15 to $30. But if you want one that’s already been purchased, the owner could jack up the price significantly.

Morton isn’t in the game to sell off his domains; he’s got websites for about 50 of them. Instead, he buys them with the express purpose of turning them into seemingly legit websites that, upon closer inspection, often skewer their namesakes.