He buys some typos, but someone else snags his name in .com.
This week, Donald Trump announced that Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson will be his nominee for Secretary of State. Yesterday, someone acting on behalf of Tillerson registered a number of typos and variations of his name, such as RexTilerson.com (one ‘l’), RexTilllerson.com (three ‘l’s) and RexWTillerson.net.
But somebody dropped the ball here. Someone else owned RexTillerson.com but let it expire. A DropCatch customer picked it up on December 11. And a GoDaddy customer registered RexWTillerson.com on December 13.
Every Secretary of State faces lots of scrutiny, and that will especially be the case for one that served as CEO of an oil company. Unfortunately for Tillerson, someone will be able to criticize him using a .com domain name that exactly matches his name.
The fault probably lies with Exxon, which should have been protecting his name.
Joseph Peterson says
I guess that’s 1 reason for everybody to grab their personal name in .COM. Never know when you’ll become a cabinet pick.
MoveOn says
You’ve said: “Unfortunately for Tillerson, someone will be able to criticize him using a .com domain name that exactly matches his name.”
Don’t assume everybody is a crazy leftie…
Joseph Peterson says
@MoveOn,
If criticism implies someone is a “crazy leftie”, then you’re saying that people are on the right are incapable of critical thinking.
Logically that’s as clear as 2 + 2 = 4.
I’d never say that. Conservatives aren’t sheep. They can examine and criticize too.