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Shortly after the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive
announced her campaign last week, she found out that a
cybersquatter had bought the rights to carlyfiorina.org and was
using it to criticize her record.
Chuck Todd of NBC News brought up the issue while interviewing
Fiorina on "Meet the Press" and showed the website, which
features row after row of frowny-face emoticons representing
30,000 people laid off during her Hewlett-Packard tenure from
1999 to 2005.
Fiorina defended her record and after the interview sent a tweet
thanking Todd for having her on the show and saying, "Btw,
checkout chucktodd.org." Her campaign had registered that domain
and clicking on the link redirected traffic to her official
campaign site, carlyforpresident.com.
Fiorina had done the same thing last week with sethmeyers.org
when she appeared on NBC's "The Late Show with Seth Meyers."
Fiorina has acknowledged she made a mistake in not registering
carlyfiorina.org first, but she is not the only 2016
presidential candidate bedeviled by cybersquatters.
Republican Ted Cruz must endure a rogue tedcruz.com site that
says only "Support President Obama. Immigration Reform now",
while jebbushforpresident.com is being used by supporters of gay
rights, not Jeb Bush.
The site hillaryclinton.org is not the work of Democratic
candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign and cyber security experts
say it contains malicious software.
(Writing by Bill Trott; Editing by Tom Heneghan)
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