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We bought likely 2028 presidential campaign urls

Prediction markets are forward prices of who runs. We read them as an oracle and bought

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+$10 on trumpmassie.com from Palos Verdes, CA · 11 min ago+$140 on vanceschmitt.com from Palos Verdes, CA · 16 min ago+$5 on talaricokelly.com from Atherton, CA · 29 min ago+$10 on desantisschmitt.com from Miami, FL · 1 hr ago+$5 on youngkinvance.com from Short Hills, NJ · 2 hr ago+$5 on ocasiocorteztalarico.com from Aspen, CO · 6 hr ago+$1 on ocasiocortezossoff2028.com from Woodside, CA · 6 hr ago+$20 on ossoffwarnock.com from Greenwich, CT · 7 hr ago+$2 on emanuelossoff.com from Palm Beach, FL · 8 hr ago+$2 on aocslotkin.com from San Francisco, CA · 8 hr ago+$10 on ossoffbiden.com from Aspen, CO · 11 hr ago+$25 on ossoffelsayed.com from Rye, NY · 12 hr ago
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Jon Ossoff

Jon Ossoff

14 urls · $15,425
25% to be the nominee
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

30 urls · $32,514
14% to be the nominee
Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom

7 urls · $8,613
13% to be the nominee
Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris

12 urls · $14,167
6% to be the nominee
Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg

11 urls · $12,168
5% to be the nominee
Andy Beshear

Andy Beshear

7 urls · $7,004
5% to be the nominee
Josh Shapiro

Josh Shapiro

5 urls · $5,443
4% to be the nominee
Raphael Warnock

Raphael Warnock

9 urls · $9,941
4% to be the nominee
Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly

9 urls · $9,414
4% to be the nominee
James Talarico

James Talarico

14 urls · $14,642
4% to be the nominee
Wes Moore

Wes Moore

4 urls · $3,467
3% to be the nominee
Abdul El-Sayed

Abdul El-Sayed

9 urls · $7,992
2% to be the nominee
Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel

12 urls · $13,444
2% to be the nominee
Gina Hinojosa

Gina Hinojosa

4 urls · $4,242
1% to be the VP pick
Andy Kim

Andy Kim

7 urls · $7,127
<1% to be the VP pick
Amy Acton

Amy Acton

6 urls · $6,721
<1% to be the VP pick
David Crowley

David Crowley

6 urls · $7,681
<1% to be the VP pick
Gretchen Whitmer

Gretchen Whitmer

10 urls · $10,343
<1% to be the nominee
Roy Cooper

Roy Cooper

1 url · $693
<1% to be the nominee
Ruben Gallego

Ruben Gallego

1 url · $857
<1% to be the nominee
Elissa Slotkin

Elissa Slotkin

26 urls · $30,165
<1% to be the nominee
Mikie Sherrill

Mikie Sherrill

4 urls · $4,356
<1% to be the nominee
Joe Biden

Joe Biden

6 urls · $7,235

Our tickets, by the odds

Each bar is a nominee’s chance of winning the nomination. The pieces inside are our urls with them, each sized by that ticket’s odds. Empty space is running mates we don’t hold. Click a piece to buy in.

chance this person is the nomineeour ticket, priced by Kalshiour ticket, estimated
Democratsabout41%

roughly 1 in 2: the chance one of our 91 Democratic tickets is the real one. 28% of that is priced by Kalshi ticket markets; the rest is nominee × running mate.

Ossoff8 tickets16%of 25%
Ocasio-Cortez18 tickets14%of 14%
Newsom5 tickets2.5%of 13%
Harris5 tickets2.7%of 5.8%
Buttigieg7 tickets1.3%of 5.1%
Beshear2 tickets0.2%of 4.5%
Shapiro3 tickets0.5%of 4.5%
Warnock2 tickets0.6%of 4.0%
Kelly4 tickets1.0%of 3.8%
Talarico9 tickets1.2%of 3.6%
Moore3 tickets0.3%of 2.6%
El-Sayed1 ticket0.1%of 2.4%
Emanuel8 tickets0.8%of 1.7%
Whitmer6 tickets<0.1%of 0.5%
Slotkin10 tickets0.2%of 0.5%
Republicansabout9.2%

roughly 1 in 11: the chance one of our 28 Republican tickets is the real one. 4.5% of that is priced by Kalshi ticket markets; the rest is nominee × running mate.

Vance3 tickets2.6%of 34%
Rubio1 ticket0.3%of 21%
DeSantis5 tickets2.5%of 18%
Carlson3 tickets1.6%of 3.9%
McEntee3 tickets0.3%of 3.4%
Massie2 tickets0.9%of 2.9%
Youngkin3 tickets0.7%of 2.9%
Kent2 tickets<0.1%of 1.7%
Trump4 tickets0.2%of 1.4%
Hawley1 ticket<0.1%of 0.9%
Sanders1 ticket<0.1%of 0.7%

Within a party only one ticket can win, so our tickets’ chances add up. Estimates assume the nominee and running-mate races are independent; a nominee’s real pick depends on who they are, so treat those as rough.

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FAQ

Why Would Someone Pay For A URL?

For a public figure or a political campaign, owning the most obvious website is important; it’s what people find when they go looking for you. Alternatively, an opponent's URL can be useful for a smear campaign.

We know, for example, that Michael Bloomberg had to purchase mikebloomberg2020.com from its previous owner when he launched his 2020 presidential campaign. He paid an undisclosed amount - and the secrecy alone should tell you something about how much money changed hands.

What is domain squatting?

Domain squatting refers generally to the practice of purchasing desirable or convenient URLs that you will not yourself use, and attempting to resell them.

What is this?

A satire project and a real bet. Campaigns need a website, and the obvious name for a ticket is usually already taken. We registered the names for tickets that could run in 2028.

What do I get for my money?

A share of that website’s pot. If you put in $10 and the pot holds $1,000, you own 1% of it.

When do I get paid?

Only if that exact website sells. Owners split 80% of the price by how much each put in. We keep 20%.

What’s the lowest price you’ll sell for?

$15,000, or more if the pot is big enough that owners would otherwise lose money.

What if that ticket never happens?

Then the website probably never sells and you get nothing back. There are no refunds or withdrawals. Only put in money you’re fine losing.

Where do the odds come from?

Kalshi, a prediction market. The big number is the chance of the nomination. Each ticket uses Kalshi’s own price for that pairing where one exists, otherwise the nominee odds times the running mate’s chance of the pick. The chart under the board shows how our tickets add up.

Manifesto

Politicians come and go, the vast majority running purely in their own self interest or - as the case may be - the self-interest of the massive corporate donors who own them heart and soul. Yang, Kanye, even Trump, have shown that running for office is now a standard piece of brand-building.

Universally, however, candidates wear the idea that they are acting “for the people” loudly upon their sleeves. In some small way we can force that to be true: let us collectively hold hostage those assets a campaign needs, and force a prospective candidate to pay ransom back to the crowd before commencing their voyage of public aggrandizement.

As they say in the real estate business: location, location, location! And when it comes to urls, mostly available for paltry sums and entirely unique, well: it’s free real estate.

Pre-buying political domains is like laying a predictive minefield: a sale can potentially detect actions in advance of announcements.

Domain squatting is a plague: conniving scamsters seize premium land and prevent growth. If you don’t have a good idea for cookies.me, don’t stop someone else from taking it! Of course our defense is that we DID have a good idea, and this is it.

The savvy consider betting markets to be more reliable predictors than the polls. Because the political consultant class watches the betting markets, betting affects the race just as polls influence the electorate - a political observer effect. Let’s kick that up a notch: by betting on an asset a candidate will be forced to buy back, these bets will interface with campaigns directly.

If the lion’s share of politics is performance and gamesmanship, let’s get in the game.

in the year 2028

Someone is going to run. We already own the website.