Brooklyn man cashes in on Harris-Walz web domain
He kept a list of 20 domains in his back pocket for four years this time, purchasing them all on Aug. 13, 2020. On Tuesday, he struck gold once again.
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For many voters, the name Tim Walz did not mean much until Tuesday - the day Vice President Kamala Harris named him as her running mate for the 2024 presidential race.
But for years, Tim Walz was on one Brooklyn man's radar.
Jeremy Green Eche calls himself a "cyber squatter."
He buys internet domains at a low cost and sells them when those names gain popularity. He says politicians are the perfect market.
His hobby started back in 2011 when he somehow predicted the Clinton-Caine duo. At the time, an anonymous buyer purchased the site for $15,000. That anonymous buyer wound up being a representative of Former President Donald Trump's marketing team.
Eche says the Trump campaign then used his website as a parody page, posting attack adds on Clinton.
He says this time, he wanted no part of that. He kept a list of 20 domains in his back pocket for four years this time, purchasing them all on Aug. 13, 2020. On Tuesday, he struck gold once again.
Though some may think he is a genie, he says there is strategy.
He thought that Harris was bound to pick a white man, not from California.
He says he narrowed it down by checking those boxes and the fact that he appears to be 'moderate' to some Americans.
He has been asked why he did not sell the website for more. He says $15,000 is plenty.
He and his wife are expecting their second child in January and that money will go to child care.
