He just wanted a catchy website name. Now, Bob Innes hands people over to the
police for trying to have their enemies killed
In October 2005, Bob Innes bought the website domain name “rentahitman.com.” It was the dotcom era and he was a business school student in North Carolina trying to advertise website traffic analysis services: the “hit” was a nod to clicks coming in on a client’s website.
“It was simply a play on words,” he says now, when contacted via email for an interview.