We'll not be laughing at him if there is a worldwide pandemic of Ebola, and everyone heads to his website for advice. Think of the advertising revenue!
Painfully trendy: Someone just spent $200k on ebola.com
Anyone looking to cash in on the zeitgeist by buying the domain name ebola.com has left it too late, because the domain name has sold for more than $200,000. A Russian firm called Weed Growth Fund has snapped up this on-trend online home, according to an SEC filing. The Russian-registered company that now owns ebola.com paid …
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Monday 27th October 2014 15:19 GMT 100113.1537
Re: Natural Ebola remedies
Sadly, the market in fake - and dangerous - ebola "cures" is already going strong. WHO has had to distribute information on how to treat people who are swallowing bleach (hypochlorite) after being told that this will cure ebola. We live in sad times when such fear campaigns have to be addressed and take valuable resources away from the more important items.
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Monday 27th October 2014 15:29 GMT wikkity
Re: ebola.co.uk
Thought that was a bingo site
Seriously though. Ebola has been around for a longer than the current crisis. I don't know how long it has done so but this site is collecting donations for UNICEF.
Interestingly the site appears to be a genuine UNICEF site but the whois entry state a registrant type as an individual.
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Monday 27th October 2014 18:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
This is where
the internet falls down.
Domains like this should be held at government level by the appropriate agency and used as a source of legitimate information, especially in the case of Ebola where there is so much hype and nonsense being farted about.
The entire domain ownership system is corrupt. Nowadays, if you want to start a company, you need to see what domains are available first and foremost, and I recently had this experience where with over a dozen different names and variations, nothing was available for my fitness company. Only two or three were genuine sites, the rest were all for sale at ridiculous four figure sums.
It's fucking bollocks.
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Tuesday 28th October 2014 12:31 GMT FlatSpot
Re: This is where
You just need to be more creative and look at current trends especially around music artists for example, One Direction, a rubbish band.. but using the direction part I found some good available names using (whatever)direction.co.uk good for hub sites.
Also using "the" in front of the name will normally throw up some, for example this one is free.
thefitnessgym.co.uk
or even this one is free
yourlocalgym.co.uk
or base it on your name, in your case;
anonfitness.co.uk
is free ;)
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Tuesday 28th October 2014 12:26 GMT I ain't Spartacus
I've paid for the site. I've decided it's time to join the online gambling boom. Poker is passe, roulette is silly, what we need is a new online game.
I propose Tombola!
Now I can't trademark that. So my online tombola is of course called an ebola. How was I to know that I'd suddenly get all this competition for my trademark? Can I sue a virus?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
