“They do it for profit,” Matthew Sanderson, the counsel for Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, wrote last year in the Election Law Journal. “They do it for spite. They do it to broadcast criticisms. They do it out of egotism or to indulge their idea of fun.”
Mr. Sanderson cited the case of a Florida private investigator named Joseph Culligan who owned more than 500 political domain names, including PresidentBillClinton.com and ReelectPresidentBush.com. He said that Mr. Culligan had offered PresidentHatch.com to Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, for $45,000. Another squatter is said to have sold Forbes2000.com to Steve Forbes, the presidential candidate, for more than $10,000.
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