At this time, HarrisWalz.com is owned by the GOAT of cybersquatting
Cybersquatting as an Online Marketplace for Trademark Attorneys, and a Prospect for a Trump-Leading Ticket
In August 2020, anticipating Harris might run again in the future, he snapped up 15 Harris-related domain names, combined with “every sort of folksy white man I could think of who was big at the time.” Those include Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and, of course, Walz.
Jeremy Green Eche is a trademark attorney and runs an online marketplace where people can buy and sell registered trademarks. He’s likely better known as a domain investor.
“There’s probably like four or five other people doing it and I don’t know them,” he says of cybersquatting. “I just think it’s really fun to register a domain and then have this kind of payoff where I just hit the jackpot and I get a little news cycle and it’s just kind of a good time for me.”
Not one to rule out any political possibilities, Eche says he’s holding on to some domains for a potential Walz-led ticket too, just in case he one day runs for president.
It’s largely guesswork, though Eche keeps up with politics (he’s a member of New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter) and links his knack for recognizing rising political stars to his college gig as an autograph dealer.
The Clinton-Kaine domain name was purchased by someone who thought it was worth more than the price it was bought for by the Trump campaign. He does Republican names as well, but his best one so far this year was TrumpCotton.com, until Trump picked Tom Cotton.
He says he ultimately sold the site for $15,000 to a different, anonymous buyer, which turned out to be the Trump campaign. The website published anti-Clinton news during the election.
Harris Walz.com: A Hero for the Little Niche of Cyber Squatting, or Why Middle America is Not What It Is
Harris didn’t know the Minnesota governor and former congressman well, if at all, before this process. The Harris-Walz ticket was introduced in Philadelphia on Tuesday and his appeal was clear.
While Eche had the hypothetical Harris-Walz domain on lock for years, he surely couldn’t have predicted the twists and turns that this election cycle would take — from President Biden embarking on a second term and withdrawing, then the Democratic party coalescing around Harris as the nominee and her choosing Walz out of a crowded pool of contenders.
I feel like a person who did well in the Olympics and failed to medal in Tokyo, then came back and won a gold medal again, is the same person as Eche. I feel like a hero for the small niche of cybersquatting.
Eche says he had less than a day to prepare. In 2016, he embellished ClintonKaine.com with homemade comics and fan fiction, to give people something to look at. This time around, he had just enough time to make a single meme, at his wife’s suggestion.
The Harris-walz website has a green background and all of the letters walz, emulating the look of the song “Brat” by Charli XCX. The Harris-Pritzker site looks the same, only with “prit.” The options to buy Harris Walz.com and other hypothetical Harris domains can be found on the two pages Clicking on those two pages leads users to Eche’s online marketplace.
If Harris runs in the 2020 election, these domains will retain their value and be valuable in the second half of the century. This is an excellent investment for them.
He has 10 different domains for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who many expect will run in the future. His hypothetical running mates for her include Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth. He is offering each one of them a sum of money.
“Like all regular people I grew up with in the heartland, JD studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires and then wrote a best seller trashing that community. Come on. Middle America is not what that is. I have to tell you that. I am looking forward to debating the guy. That is if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.”
The Democrats have an issue with their party’s voters. It started before Trump with Republicans calling them “Limousine Liberals” and “latte-drinking liberals.” But it’s become more acute in the age of Trump. Democrats haven’t been able to connect with the working-class white voters the way the party did decades ago. Walz had a plan for how to talk to them, in which they might even say the same words as before but in a more authentic way.
He mentioned that he’s a high school teacher and a football coach. One of his former football players was on CNN after the speech, talking about how Walz helped him and was a father figure, as he was raised by a single mom.
He said that he talked about what it was like to be a kid in a rural community, where neighbors treated each other and he didn’t compromise his values.
Tim Walz – the Golden Rule of Sen. Randall-Sundrum: An Introduction to the National Stage for Speakers and Non-Members
When he was in congress, he talked about being a good shot. In fact, he had a camouflage hat on in the video when he received the call from Harris to be her VP.
“Some of us are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. They said the government should be able to invade your doctor’s office. In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make. Even if we wouldn’t make the same choices for ourselves, there’s still a golden rule. ”
I can see you down there. He jokingly said, ” I see those old, white guys, they’re in front rows.” before delivering a progressive message.
He’s a white guy. Part of Harris’ job is to testify in order to make sure that people still trust him and the other running mates. That might be ideological or — when there hasn’t been a woman as president, let alone a Black or South Asian woman in the office — it might be the white guy’s job to reassure other white guys.
Walz ain’t from San Francisco, but what can he teach us about his heritage and our country? The elephant in the room
Walz ain’t from San Francisco. He made that clear Tuesday night. In a off-the-cuff comment, he said what could be considered the elephant in the room.
While he was the guy who used the term ‘weird’ in an attack against Donald Trump and his running mate, he didn’t mention it in his speech.