A trademark lawyer sold the domain name ClintonKaine.com in 2016. He's sitting on HarrisWalz.com now
A trademark lawyer who bought the domain named ClintonKaine
Jeremy Green Eche took a chance and purchased the website HarrisWalz.com for $8.99 in 2020 when then-Sen. Kamala Harris of California was seeking the Democratic nomination for president.
“I just tried to grab her name and all the heartland governors I could think of,” he recalled Monday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Four years later, if Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, Eche could be looking at a payday. He is willing to sell it — and a slate of over a dozen other Harris websites — for $15,000, he says.
This is not a new scenario for the 36-year-old trademark lawyer in New York City's Brooklyn borough. Eche is a cyber squatter, a person who buys a domain with someone else’s name or brand for very little money, hoping to sell it to that person or brand for a large profit in the subsequent months or years. It is also called domain investing, given it can reap significant rewards.
