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

One lawyer living in D.C. has been dabbling in domain squatting for the better part of a decade, and his hobby just paid off big time.

Back in 2011 Jeremy “Pegg” Green purchased ClintonKaine.com for $8, one of many domains he owned and used to show his Harry Potter-themed cartoons like “Hillary Potter and the Boredom of the Phoenix.” (Others included ClintonBiden.com and ClintonBooker.com, both of which still feature the Hillary Potter cartoons.) It was a way to boost visibility for his art while gambling on the outcome of the veepstakes.

Once Clinton announced Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate, Green’s plan was to try to sell it for a five-figure sum. He’s already sold Cruz2016.com and BidenWarren.com for $1,500 each this cycle.

And now, it looks like it has worked. Receipts Green provided to DCist show that he sold ClintonKaine.com for $15,000 through a broker with the website Flippa, a marketplace for domains that will keep a $1,800 commission.

“It’s going to make a huge difference for me,” says Green, despite it being less than the $90,000 he was hoping for after Clinton chose Kaine. “I am very broke right now, worse than broke. I have a lot of credit card debt that’s now going to be paid off.”

But those same receipts indicate that the site is about to host content far more negative towards the Democratic ticket than calling Kaine the ultimate Hufflepuff. The receipts list Brad Parscale, the digital director for Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign, as the purchaser of the site.

Green did not have control over who bought the domain. “My contract [with Flippa] bound me to accept any deal above my minimum price, which was $14,000,” he says. Pascale bid $15,000.

We’ve reached out to Pascale for comment about his plans for the site, and will update this story if he responds. Currently, the site is blank.

Purchasing domains has been a way to flip the script on politicians. TedCruz.com, for instance, currently has a picture of Hillary Clinton with the words “Next President of the United States of America!!!”

Green says that going through Flippa wasn’t his first choice. Initially, he says, following the convention, he got connected through a friend to the Clinton campaign.

“The phone conversation was very short,” Green says. “The digital director said they didn’t have the discretionary budget, and they could only offer $2,000. In the conversation I kept going lower, but they weren’t interested in negotiating. They thanked me for coming to them first, but that was that. I was kind of bummed out.”

He understands why the campaign didn’t purchase the domain, though. “They made a valid choice,” he says. “It’s a billboard on the internet. It’s not a very important thing in my opinion.”

We’ve reached out to the Clinton campaign for comment as well.

Green emphasizes that he plans to vote for Clinton in the general election. He says he’s bummed that some of the coverage, like an article on Vox, made it seem like he was “holding the domain hostage” because he supported Clinton’s Democratic rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, in the primary.

Green doesn’t think he’ll return to the high-stakes world of political domain squatting. “This was a good run,” he says. “I think I’m getting out now. I’m retiring successfully.”

However, he plans to leave the Hillary Potter cartoons on ClintonBiden.com and ClintonBooker.com, as well as the content on Santorum-2012.com, a blog for food blog that looks like the neologism of the former senator’s last name, “just for posterity.”