Presidential candidate and former CEO Carly Fiorina didn’t register the domain name carlyfiorina.org when she first announced she was running for president. And for some reason the media has nothing better to do (I guess everything is fine and dandy in Baltimore, the Middle East and Hillary Clinton land) than to ding her for it.
But Fiorina was prepared. Last Tuesday, Fiorina was asked by “Late Night” host Seth Meyers about the domain name, which had been bought by a Democrat detractor who used it to point out how many people she laid off as CEO of Hewlett-Packard after its merger with Compaq, to eliminate the resulting duplicated positions.
Fiorina responded to Meyers by revealing that she had purchased SethMeyers.org, which she re-routed to her own campaign website.
When NBC’s Chuck Todd interviewed Fiorina on Sunday’s “Meet The Press,” he either set the presidential candidate up or thought her “Late Night” stunt would be the end of her trolling.
It wasn’t. Todd predictably brought up what Fiorina’s people are now humorously calling “domaingate.” After the show, the former CEO revealed that her team had also purchased chucktodd.org. That website also redirects to Fiorina’s campaign website.
And despite a week of attention being paid to Fiorina’s domain snafu, it turns out 2016 Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton also failed to purchase domain names. Hillaryclinton.net also redirects to Fiorina’s campaign website, although her team told Buzzfeed News they had nothing to do with the purchase.
Hillaryclinton.net, according to a GoDaddy domain registration search, belongs to a California man who doesn’t appear to be a big time donor. He gave a little over $1,000 to a Texas Tea Party organization in 2011, but there’s little other evidence of his political involvement. The Washington Examiner has reached out to him and will update this post if he responds.
The registrant for the Clinton domain created the URL in late 2002, two years after the former First Lady had been elected to the Senate.
Part of the reason for the focus on Fiorina is her background in tech — as if failing to register a domain name (which was snapped up before she even announced she was running for president) somehow undoes everything she accomplished in her life.
Or maybe this is the media’s best effort to distract from week after week of bad Clinton news.
