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South Park Writer Snagged 'Trump-Kennedy Center' Web Domains Months Ago

The Center’s website also already reflects the name change—but quibblers might note that the site’s actual domain does not. It remains “kennedy-center.org”. There’s a reason for this: the domains “trumpkennedycenter.org” and “trumpkennedycenter.com” are already taken. They’re owned by comedian and scriptwriter Toby Morton, who has written for South Park and Mad TV. In his downtime, Morton has made a habit of acquiring official-sounding domains for satirical purposes: he already owns around 50 such sites, including nancymace26.com (“I don’t legislate, I litigate grudges”) and mtg2026.org (“Building a whiter tomorrow!”).

Morton told the Washington Post that he has something similar planned for these domains: “[They will] absolutely reflect the absurdity of the moment,” he promised. In a moment of clairvoyance, he purchased them earlier this year after Trump announced that he was firing the Center’s entire board. (“We will soon announce a new Board,” the President wrote on Truth Social at the time, adding that the new board would feature “an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!”)

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I have a theory: I think Trump is jealous of Kennedy for being more famous than him for having been assassinated by a lone gunman. Just look at how happy he looked when a kid clipped his earlobe with a poorly-placed bullet, and how disappointed he was that nobody took it more seriously than a clipped earlobe.

If he dreams of being a dead Kennedy, I'm sure a lot of people would like to grant him his wish. Hell, I'd even been okay to let hundreds of places be renamed after Trump if he's finally dead and out of the picture.

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lemmy.world

That's cool, but do people still type in .com domains?

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femtekreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

What do you mean? .com is not a hard coded default. If you don't put a .com, it won't bring you anywhere.

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Cortreply
lemmy.world

I think they mean: don't people just Google the site they want, who actually types out a complete url anymore?

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People who know malware sites that look legit prey upon people that google search for a website.

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Of course we do. It takes you directly to the site without going through a search engine.

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Blaster Mreply
lemmy.world

People who want to go to a website and not get tricked into downloading malware becauae they searched for a website instead

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Janxreply
piefed.social

But that's how you download the newest Firefex!

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I'm confused, like do you mean you web search every website you regularly use or do you mean you let your browser auto complete the URL?

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