Trump Can Trumpet Mumbai, Beijing, Abu Dhabi Naming Triumph
- Appeals court upholds ownership of names like trumpbeijing.com
- Brooklyn cybersquatter must pay presidential hopeful $32,000
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters during a campaign rally on April 22, 2016 in Harrington, Delaware.
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Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed China for an economic assault on American jobs and wealth. On Thursday, he became the undeniable owner of the trumpbeijing.com domain name.
That name and three others like it rightfully belong to Trump, a federal appeals court said in upholding a ruling that Trump can reclaim them from the Brooklyn website developer who registered them. Whether the Republican presidential front-runner, whose foreign policy is built around the notion of “America first,” ever plans to make use of the domains is unclear. But there’s no doubt that he’s now in charge of them.