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ANYTHING FOR A BUCK ...

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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