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If anyone doubted what I had to say yesterday, which was basically that news drives search and that since domains facilitate search opportunists hungry to control eyeballs will register any domain name if they think they can make a buck off of it. To further illustrate the concept here is a further list of domain names that were registered yesterday.
virginiatechshooting.com virginiatechshooting.net virginiatechshooting.org virginiatechshooting.info virginiatechshooting.us vatechshooting.com vatechshooting.net vatechshooting.org vatechshooting.info vatechshooting.us vatechshooting.biz vtshooting.com vtshooting.info vatechmassacre.com vatechmassacre.net vatechmassacre.info vatechmassacre.biz vtmassacre.com vtmassacre.net vtmassacre.org vtmassacre.info virginiatechrampage.com vatechrampage.com vtrampage.com virginiatechmurders.com virginiatechmurders.net virginiatechmurders.org virginiatechmurders.info virginiatechmurders.us vatechmurders.com vtmurders.com hokieshootings.com hokiemassacre.com blacksburgshootings.com
A large portion of these were registered at GoDaddy and now display pay-per-click ads from which revenues could be derived. The registrant and or GoDaddy are both in a position to potentially profit from this, along with the ad syndicator. Against my better judgement I have provided a link to one of the pages so you could check the display ads out for yourself. Unsuspecting advertisers are paying for the traffic generated from domain names like these and are thereby unwittingly, inextricably and financially associated with this tragedy. It's very sick really.
And, as if that wasn't enough, there's more! For a period of time after the shootings the identity of the shooter remained a mystery. Within seconds of his name being revealed:
choseunghui.com was registered, followed by choseung-hui.com, followed by chohui.com...you get the idea. These are valuable! Not!
Sometimes I really wonder about the business I am in!
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