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Am I the only one who dislikes the domain name itself? Every time I see it, I read it as "Clint One Mail", not "Clinton Email".



Yeah, as important and fascinating as the whole story is, every time I see "ClintonEmail.com," all I can think is that surely the Clintons of all people should have the influence and power to get a hold of just "Clinton.com."

I mean the current owner of clinton.com is some investment firm that could probably do just as well something like ClintonGroup.com or ClintonInvestments.com. If I was her, I would fight for the email address "hillary@clinton.com."

Then again, I'm a programmer, not a politician.


> If I was her, I would fight for the email address "hillary@clinton.com."

How does one "fight for an email address"?

Once you own a domain, you own it. It doesn't matter that it just so happens to be someone else's last name.

She would have had to pay most likely a large sum to the investment firm that already owns clinton.com... and perhaps they aren't interested in selling, or they value the domain too high.




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