A lawyer and artist from Washington, DC hopes that his domain name, ClintonKaine.com, which he registered years ago will bring him some financial reward in the form of $90,000.
A 28-year old by the name of Jeremy Peter Green (a.k.a. Jeremy Pegg) bought the domain name back in 2011 for $8.00.
In an interview with CNN/Money, Green said “I’d like to build a solo legal practice [with the money].”
Pegg, who also calls himself a socialist was a Bernie Sanders supporter said that he had a feeling that Clinton would pick Kaine to be her running mate because Obama sought out the same individual during his Presidential campaign before picking Biden.  But he also bought ClintonBooker.com and ClintonBiden.com, as he thought about possible VP choices.
For now, he is using the domain to show off his comics and penchant for Harry Potter.  There’s currently a cartoon depicting Hillary Clinton fighting off Donald Trump.  “I’m kind of helping the campaign by making Donald Trump Voldemort,” Pegg said.
The Hillary Clinton campaign has field legal action against Pegg, which he also claims that the domain name “is his Trademark.”
“It was my fan fiction site before she ever announced Kaine,” he said. “With the lawyers they’d spend on, trying to sue me, they could just buy the domain.”
Federal law prohibits people from registering domains that contain prominent trademarks if they’re not the trademark holder and are seeking to profit from the sale with bad faith intent. (Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was awarded $32,000 two years ago after he sued a man for owning four parody websites with his name in the domains.)
Pegg says he’ll start contacting a list of potential buyers after the Democratic National Convention wraps up in Philadelphia this week.
On his list are the Clinton campaign, the Trump campaign, super PACs and “wealthy people.”
“It’s a way a rich person can effectively contribute $90,000 to a campaign without violating election laws,” Pegg muses.
Other Clinton-Kaine related domains like Electclintonkaine.com and Clintonkaine2017.com are listed for auction on GoDaddy for as much as $35,000 and $50,000.
Meanwhile, Pegg’s ClintonKaine.com has a minimum bid of $25,000 on Flippa, another domain auction site.
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