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Let this be a lesson, franchisors&#8212;don&#8217;t forget to register or renew your website&#8217;s domain. It appears that Jeb Bush&#8217;s campaign never bothered to register <a href="http://www.jebbush.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchisors-dont-pull-a-jeb-bush-and-let-trump-get-your-website-3643" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JebBush.com</a>. Fortunately, for the first several months of the campaign, that never seemed to matter&#8212;the domain was left benevolently blank, and <a href="http://jeb2016.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchisors-dont-pull-a-jeb-bush-and-let-trump-get-your-website-3643" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeb2016.com</a> was being used instead. But sometime last fall, someone appears to have noticed the perfect opportunity to pull a prank. So they swooped in, made a bid and scooped up the domain. Now, if you try typing &#8220;<a href="http://www.jebbush.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchisors-dont-pull-a-jeb-bush-and-let-trump-get-your-website-3643" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JebBush.com</a>&#8221; into your URL field, you&#8217;ll see a pretty jarring result&#8212;it takes you straight to the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump&#8217;s website. To dispel speculation, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said that their team is not involved in the redirect, and the actual owner of the domain is unknown, utilizing a privacy domain service to stay unlisted. How, after immigration reform activists snapped up TedCruz.com and CarlyFiorina.org became a testament to the layoffs Fiorina ordered at Hewlett-Packard, could Bush&#8217;s people not lock up JebBush.com? The world may never know. But if there&#8217;s any takeaway from this digital misdirection, it&#8217;s this&#8212;whether you&#8217;re a business owner or a politician, make sure you own the rights to domains that carry your name. Otherwise, you might get Trumped. <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/16/jebbushcom-redirects-viewers-donald-trump-website/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=franchisors-dont-pull-a-jeb-bush-and-let-trump-get-your-website-3643" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to read the original article.</a>

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