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Trump Organization Owns More Than 3,600 Domain Names, Many of Which Bash Trump (go.com) 224

With the presidential election just days away, research firm DomainIQ decided to track down the number of domains registered under Donald Trump's organization and Hillary Clinton's campaign. They found that the Trump Organization owns more than 3,600 web addresses, including names of his properties, products and progeny, as well as Trump-bashing names. Some of the domains registered under the Trump Organization include donaldtrumpsucks.com, no2trump.com, trumpmustgo.com and two dozen others that appear to be bashing the billionaire Republican presidential nominee. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton's campaign owns 70 domains, but none of them appear to bash Clinton. ABC News reports: There are 274 domains alone featuring the name of Trump's daughter Ivanka. And then there are the ones that seem better suited for the anti-Trump crowd: eight domains ending in "scheme," eight ending in "fraud" and eight ending in "sucks." Cable giant Comcast owns ihatecomcast.com, and Verizon holds verizonsucks.com. Colleges have made a habit of buying up versions of their names ending in .xxx to prevent them from falling into the hands of pornographers, and Major League Baseball has registered the names of various teams ending in .sex. Hillary Clinton's campaign owns 70, according to DomainIQ, though none appear to be the kind of derogatory names Trump has registered. Her family's foundation owns 214 domains, including four ending in .xxx.
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Trump Organization Owns More Than 3,600 Domain Names, Many of Which Bash Trump

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  • Seems to be bashing the Donald all the time.
  • This is common (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:31PM (#53196071)

    Most companies do this to prevent the domains from being used against them.

    So, what's the story here? Is this just another pathetic attempt to smear Trump and praise Hillary? Trying to distract from the FBI investigation regarding the 650000 emails found on Weiner's laptop?

    • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

      by HanzoSpam ( 713251 )

      Does this mean the US is now the Weiner Republic?

      • by msauve ( 701917 )
        "Does this mean the US is now the Weiner Republic?"

        I know there's a joke about inflation there somewhere.
        • by kybred ( 795293 )

          "Does this mean the US is now the Weiner Republic?"

          I know there's a joke about deflation there somewhere.

          Fixed that for ya.

        • by quax ( 19371 )

          The Weimar Republic was never that ridiculous.

    • I did not check more than a couple, but the few domains I checked returned blank pages with no content.
    • Re:This is common (Score:5, Informative)

      by swalve ( 1980968 ) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:48PM (#53196181)
      Agreed. If they were a bit more nuanced, they might have have held the domains under a different company, but this is absolutely SOP for anyone with potential haters.
      • by cdrudge ( 68377 )

        but this is absolutely SOP for anyone with potential haters.

        I'm actually kinda surprised that the number is only 3,600 domains. I'd expect a lot higher number for Trump.

      • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        It should upset Trump supporters who are also Free Speech Warriors. The ones who argue that Twitter shouldn't ban people and that Facebook should give everyone a soapbox. Guys like Mashiki [slashdot.org] must logically oppose attempts to shut down critical speech [imgur.com] this way.

        • What does this have to do with free speech? I don't think there's any shortage of people saying Trump sucks.

          • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

            Nothing, I don't agree with Masahiki at all. I'm just saying that Trump supporters like him who think that anything which deliberately limits their ability to troll^H^H^H post on Twitter and other private platforms is an assault on free speech should be upset by this too. Check the comic he linked to, and just remember that I don't support it at all and in fact posted a lengthy reply about the many ways it is wrong.

    • So, what's the story here? Is this just another pathetic attempt to smear Trump and praise Hillary?

      No, it is the opposite. It shows that Trump's organization can anticipate potential threats, and preempt them, while Hillary has failed to do the same.

    • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

      Holy shit! There were emails found on a computer?! Fuckin-A, every single one is undoubtedly a bombshell proving your conspiracy hyperbole and will finally be the irrefutable piece of evidence that sways everyone to your opinion....but the establishment won't show us cause its rigged and everyone who's ever had a stray negative thought about the Clintons has been caught by the thought police and beheaded which is why all of our rivers are running red with blood! Thank Jeebus for patriots like yourself who w

    • Most companies do this to prevent the domains from being used against them.

      So, what's the story here? Is this just another pathetic attempt to smear Trump and praise Hillary? Trying to distract from the FBI investigation regarding the 650000 emails found on Weiner's laptop?

      During the GOP primary, the Trump campaign also cyber-squatted on a Jeb Bush site to redirect to the Trump campaign page. It would be great if they also bought some Hilary sites and redirected them to themselves

      And you are right - most companies do buy these to prevent their use against themselves. But w/ ICANN proliferating TLDs, they'll have to buy up a lot more of them

  • Nope, not bashing (Score:5, Insightful)

    by penguinoid ( 724646 ) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:41PM (#53196135) Homepage Journal

    They found that the Trump Organization owns more than 3,600 web addresses, including names of his properties, products and progeny, as well as Trump-bashing names. [...] donaldtrumpsucks.com, no2trump.com, trumpmustgo.com and two dozen others that appear to be bashing the billionaire Republican presidential nominee.

    These show a blank page; they are defensively bought domains and most certainly not Trump-bashing in any way. The fact that Clinton doesn't own similar ones could reflect on her incompetence, but most likely on her political career pre-dating the internet.

    • They found that the Trump Organization owns more than 3,600 web addresses, including names of his properties, products and progeny, as well as Trump-bashing names. [...] donaldtrumpsucks.com, no2trump.com, trumpmustgo.com and two dozen others that appear to be bashing the billionaire Republican presidential nominee.

      These show a blank page; they are defensively bought domains and most certainly not Trump-bashing in any way. The fact that Clinton doesn't own similar ones could reflect on her incompetence, but most likely on her political career pre-dating the internet.

      Furthermore, this isn't even very interesting or relevant. Clinton doesn't herself purchase the domains, and if there are a few bashing domains out there they aren't being run by the candidate so... so what?

      We should be talking about policy and ethics. The two candidates have very clearly different approaches to national security, trade, border control, the supreme court, and a host of other topics.

      Bashing by website name seems 'kinda childish in the face of serious issues.

    • They found that the Trump Organization owns more than 3,600 web addresses, including names of his properties, products and progeny, as well as Trump-bashing names. [...] donaldtrumpsucks.com, no2trump.com, trumpmustgo.com and two dozen others that appear to be bashing the billionaire Republican presidential nominee.

      These show a blank page; they are defensively bought domains and most certainly not Trump-bashing in any way. The fact that Clinton doesn't own similar ones could reflect on her incompetence, but most likely on her political career pre-dating the internet.

      Another thing is that they included all Trump domains in one count, whether they were owned by his businesses or charities, etc while they counted only those owned directly by the Clinton campaign in her direct count and then later go on to mention "Oh yeah, she also has 214 other domains registered through her charity." While there is still a huge disparity 1) who cares? and 2) why the need for such obvious dishonesty? Of all the things I don't like about this campaign, the internet domains registered by

    • by ( 4475953 )

      Yep, it seems that the Trump's team has got better than IT advisors than Clinton's. I wouldn't have thought so.

      • Or that Trump cares more about trying to control his image in social media than Clinton does. It doesn't surprise me that Trump's priorities are about social media than the campaign. For example I can imagine Trump devoting lots of time to make that the domains were owned while Clinton was more concerned about staffing offices in battleground states.

        Whatever your opinion of Clinton, it is without a doubt that she's spent a great deal of her life and career under public criticism. From being the wife of a go

    • Or just the fact that she is marginally less hated than Trump ?
      Or maybe she just doesn't believe that stifling people's ability to hate on you is something a presidential candidate ought to do in a land which is built on freedom of expression - particularly around politics ?

      • Or just the fact that she is marginally less hated than Trump ?

        Depends on who you ask. According to the last WaPo/ABC poll Hildawg has a 60% unfavorable rating, compared to Trump's stellar 58% rating.

        Or maybe she just doesn't believe that stifling people's ability to hate on you is something a presidential candidate ought to do in a land which is built on freedom of expression - particularly around politics ?

        So she's all for hiring the mentally ill to go beat up her political opponents and pay people to shut down freeways to stop people from hearing her political opposition, but buying nasty domain names is too far for Principled Hillary? Naw. She just didn't think of it. I hear she's not good with computers.

        • Well if you're going to base your opinions on claims made by sites like breitbart which has been thoroughly debunked and disproven then there's no point talking since we live in two different universes and yours and mine have nothing in common.
          That dark dystopia where Obama has taken everybody's guns and Hillary Clinton is actually satan and there is something about Benghazi that isn't also true of the 11 embassies attacked while Colin Powel was secretary of state or something about her e-mail that Powel di

      • by Cederic ( 9623 )

        What's stifling? Someone's stopping you registering trumpisacunt.com? hillaryouslycorrupt.net? stopthisfuckingelectionbeforewenukerussia.org?

        Oh no, you mean you can't lazily browse to trumpsucks.com and go 'yeah, Trump, you really suck'? You're so stifled. Would you like me to find you a counsellor?

        • I never said *I* felt stifiled, but some people would - and smart politicians don't piss of potential voters, even ones who are currently voting for the other side.

    • by Ogive17 ( 691899 )
      Or that Clinton isn't nearly as thin skinned as Trump.

      Before I get accused of being a Hillary supporter, I'm not.. from what I've read so far in this thread anyone that doesn't like Trump is accused of being on Hillary's payroll...

      Look at Trump's behavior patterns. The minute someone says something negative, he starts mud slinging. The guy cannot shrug anything off. Sometimes I see parallels between his behavior and that of my 3 year old. I even joke with my wife that we're raising a mini-Trump..
      • If Hilary is elected, she'll never be removed. Like the Dems protected her husband in 1998, despite the fact that his removal would have made Algore the president and maybe prevented a Bush presidency, they won't let her be impeached, b'cos that will be a perceived victory for the GOP. If she's elected, she'll be an empress.

        Trump, OTOH, has as many enemies within his own party as he has allies. Anything controversial he does - not only will the Dems oppose him, but a good portion of his own party will

  • Didn't get this one (Score:3, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:58PM (#53196251)

    DonaldTrumpRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlin1990.com is still available

  • "This domain has been reserved from registration."

    Hillary probably grabbed that one to keep it out of Bill's hands.

  • Buying up 'X Sucks' domains based on your company's name or product line is routine. NAACP, for example:
    http://domaingang.com/domain-n... [domaingang.com]

  • by Chris Katko ( 2923353 ) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @10:20PM (#53196589)
    I was going to vote for Trump, but after seeing this, THIS is crazy and unacceptable. I'm going to vote for Hillary now.

    Keep up the great work! And let me know any other things you want me to believe without critically analyzing it first.

    Thanks!
  • Can we get a filter for BeauHD keeps repetitively posting crap Trump bashing articles from multiple discredited sites from the podesta leaks.
    Just search for Trump , then Clinton.
    BeauHD has a majority of articles coming from cnbc, washington post, politco, buzzfeed,vice all have been called on in the podesta emails leaks.

    Fucks sakes we got a tech article from Slate yesterday , next up is the huffington post.

    • by bongey ( 974911 )

      BeauHDs twitter feed. "Trump is a saggy sack of shit. If any one of you is even remotely considering voting for him this November, please unfollow me. "

  • Nobody insults better than he does. Of course he only wants to be insulted by the very best, so owning these Trump dissing domains makes perfect sense.

  • 3600 domains may not be enough to keep his ego in check.
    Of course, it still beats voting for Cell.

  • by 0xdeadbeef ( 28836 ) on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:34AM (#53197325) Homepage Journal

    "And not thin skinned. Most definitely not thinned skinned. I have the thickest skin. Let me tell you, it's thick, really thick."

    And golly-bob howdy, his supporters sure are defensive in this thread.

    I've been thinking, maybe the cluster fuck of him getting elected might be the only thing that fixes them. The way Paula Bean had to get fired, maybe these people need to see what happens to the country when they actually hold the reins.

    Who am I kidding, they'd just find another conspiracy theory, or another ethnic group to blame. The system is rigged. The system is always rigged against them.

    • Are we ignoring that we know for a fact that the system is rigged? Hillary screwed Bernie out of the nomination. Again, we know this for a fact. We also have Democrats on tape discussing how they're going to cheat in the election. Hillary is a crook and this is how she does business. Are we really going to expect that during the most important event of her life, she's going to suddenly do a 180 and stop cheating?

      And since Donald Trump is literally Hitler, why wouldn't the Democrats engage in massive

      • If you could take a time machine back to 1932 and cheat in the elections that resulted in Nazis in power, wouldn't you?

        I have a dark suspicion that if Trump were to win our ancestors will muse why no one assassinated him before he went to far. I don't condone killing, of course, but I do believe if Trump takes over, democracy in this country will never be truly democratic ever again.

  • as Trump supporters accuse Hillary of fraud for not putting nude selfies on hillaryclinton.xxx

    • as Trump supporters accuse Hillary of fraud for not putting nude selfies on hillaryclinton.xxx

      It goes to show, sometimes fraud can be a good thing.

  • Still available:

    TrumpWantsToBangHisOwnDaughter.com
    TrumpSucksMonkeyDicks.com
    Trump-is-a-clear-and-present-danger.com
    Trump-fucked-his-daughter-when-she-was-9.com
    TrumpHasTinyTinyHands.com

    . . . and so on. This is a game of Whack-A-Mole he can never, ever win.

    Another unrelated but somewhat interesting fact:

    The Clinton website carries campaign material in 11 Asian languages: Cambodian, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu and Vietnamese.

    Trump's website is English only, period. If ya

  • Comparing the number of domains owned by Trump personally with the number owned by Clinton's campaign isn't measuring what it's alleged to measure.

    For one thing, the Clintons personally owned ClintonEmail.com, not the campaign. If that was a derogatory name, it wouldn't have shown up in the count.

    For another thing, the article doesn't count derogatory names owned by supporters. The Democratic Party has been supporting the Clintons since at least 1992, right? Hillary personally has been running for Presi

    • Really, the whole thing is a non-event (and I say this as someone who wants Trump to fail). It really doesn't matter what domains either politician owns with their own (or their families names), it just shows how much they're willing to cover their arse. It doesn't say anything about the quality of their campaign.

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