“Hillary Potter and the Deathly Howler” (Image courtesy of Jeremy Pegg)

“Hillary Potter and the Deathly Howler” (Image courtesy of Jeremy Pegg)

Hillary Clinton’s announcement of Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her vice presidential choice led to progressive grousing over his record on reproductive rights, financial regulation, and money in politics. But one D.C. liberal is very excited—the lawyer who owns the ClintonKaine.com domain and is hoping to sell the site for tens of thousands of dollars.

“I was really happy,” says Jeremy Pegg (his pen name). “When I finally got the text from Hillary, I high-fived my friends.” In an email on Friday evening, he wrote “Definitely getting drunk tonight!”

Before Clinton selected a running mate, Pegg was using the site and two others—ClintonBooker.com and ClintonBiden.com—to publish self-made fan fiction that reimagined Clinton as “Hillary Potter” on a magical adventure to defeat “Don Marvolo Trump, known in popular parlance as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Elected.”

He’s since updated the Kaine comic, which was originally called “Hillary Potter and the Boredom of the Phoenix” and referred to the Virginia senator as “dull, and not particularly pleasing to the eye.” Now there’s a new entry called “Hillary Potter and the Deathly Howler,” which says that Kaine has the “genuineness and the strength of character to resist Trump’s trollish howls and perhaps even help prevent undecided members of the wizarding population from falling victim to Trump’s projections of terror and assurances of salvation.”

But featuring his comics was only one aspect of his cyber squatting plan. He purchased the sites off GoDaddy.com in the hope of selling them at a profit down the road. This scheme is a half-decade in the making—he says he bought up ClintonKaine.com back in 2011 for $8, with fees to renew each year ranging from $10-12.

“I’m looking for $90,000,” Pegg says, more than quadrupling the estimate he gave DCist a week ago. He adds that “this domain will probably be valuable for four to eight years,” assuming that Clinton/Kaine wins the election.

The Dallas-based owner of TrumpPence2016.com told The Atlantic that he hopes to make six-figures by selling the domain.

Pegg hasn’t gotten any calls to purchase the site yet, though he figures it’s because the Clinton camp is busy with the convention this week. “I’m going to wait until the Democratic convention ends and then make some calls,” he says. “These campaigns have bureaucracies and people who need to approve big purchases—hopefully big purchases—like this one.” And in the meantime, he says he’s enjoying the attention.

He’s already profited from cyber squatting this cycle, selling Cruz2016.com and BidenWarren.com for $1,500 each.

Pegg hasn’t started buying up domains for 2020, though, and doesn’t have plans to do so. “I think cyber squatting is on the way out,” he says. “Domains get worth less and less every year because people just use search engines.”

Plus, he’s still got a surfeit of sites that he’s got to figure out what to do with. He’s been using Santorum-2012.com for years as a gross-out food blog. “I do have Pawlenty.net but nobody’s contacting me about that,” he says.