Carly Fiorina fails to register domain name, trolling ensues

Carly Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard CEO running for president, has no political experience. Campaigning for president will be a learning process, then, and the first lesson came Monday with the revelation that Fiorina neglected to nail down at least one obvious domain name ahead of her launch. As a result, the site carlyfiorina.org displays no information about Fiorina's vision for America, but rather thousands of mocking emoticons representing HP layoffs under her watch:

Fiorina is not the first 2016 candidate to run into this problem. Domain squatters also trolled Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) with a pro-Obama, pro-immigration reform message.

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