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Goes on defensive domain buying spree…a couple days too late — Rex Tillerson

Goes on defensive domain buying spree…a couple days too late — Rex Tillerson

He buys some typos, but someone else snags his name in .com.

This stretch, Donald Trump disclosed 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 client picked it up on December 11. And a GoDaddy client 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 firm. 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 ought to have been protecting his name.

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