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1) that may be different for domain and for each domain investor

2) since when is that a criterium to list a domain on a resellers platform?

3) they argue that most names have ridiculous prices
- they could have forced those names to "Make Offer" only instead of banning

4) they are benefitting as a company by that move which was announced publically
- who is now the beneficiary of the corona virus?
Point 3 is interesting......so if the prices had been reasonable or at make offer they would of let it slide? Probably so........

Just looks like they have jumped on the bandwagon.....
 
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Another thing is there is a lot of virtue signaling going on, Cadillac is running commercials telling me they have my back, I can't go outside so I can't buy a Cadillac, I yell at the tv screen donate $1million to a food bank, stop virtue signaling.
here in the UK I have been getting lot's of emails (same for everyone who provided an email address to these companies) from CEO's explaining what they doing to help their customers, some from Supermarkets are on point and needed due to food delivery concerns. The ones from fashion retailers though gave me pause for thought....didn't realise there was a name for it until now....
 
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Soon when any medical company or lab discovered the final cure medicine for corona virus , unfortunately they are going to sell the medicine against money ( profit ) and make billions , nothing will be free , nothing will be charitable , nothing about humanity , and nobody will accuse them for being immoral or against ethics etc ,, like they accuse corana damainers !
So finally seems all about business and profit !


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Good morning to all.

I can honestly say that I can see the argument from both sides of the coin. I was angry before when people started registering these domains and chose not to register any myself.

We, as humans are on this planet to live, survive and provide for our families in any way that we can. However we can. We live in a society that judges each other. It is a dog eat dog world.

We live day to day where most of us need money for whatever reason. I don't really know you and you don't really know me.

Now I have calmed down a little I can see that there are too many parameters at play to just say that the names are for good or bad.

If we start down this path where will it end. Who will be judge, jury and executioner for the domain investing industry.

I chose not to register any specifically related names as initially I took the moral high ground. Then after being in Spain between the 8th to 15th March I saw a great country crumble in less than a week. Thousands of people dying and billions of euro lost almost overnight.

I am home now, but my attitude has changed. There is a saying which strikes a chord with me...'Fiat justitia et pereat mundos'. Basically, it means let justice prevail though the world perishes.

What struck me most was how the world continued around me although I was seemingly living through hell on earth.

If you were particularly religious you could say...'Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:'

I now know more than ever that I have to do whatever is necessary to provide for my loved ones. I will still use my morality as a guide but I will not be as quick to judge others.

People were probably more afraid than they have ever been and they made decisions that they might not ordinarily make but it is not our place to judge.

Now, get out of my glass house and pass me that stone for casting.


I have registered the following and wish to forward it to an appropriate authority for the purposes of good and don't know how to do so and I'd be grateful if someone could tell me.

www. Stayingathome.works

Thank you all and continue to be safe.

Regards,

Reddstagg
 
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I didn't register corona names during when it first started but I did later.

Day before yesterday, I had an offer of £150 for *pariah corona name.ccltd* which I counter-offered with a much higher amount and invited the bidder to negotiate. (2 prior offers on 'pariah names', £100 and £400.)

Bidder angry. The word 'profiteer' and 'disgusting' were introduced instead of a counter-offer. I was told I was an enemy of the state. I advised the first two were not good words to use in business negotiations. He gave me a nice lecture on what I should do with the domain. I thanked him for his advice.

Later in the day, I popped into DAN only to find my 'pariah names' all gone. So I was thinking....... all sorts😂. Let's leave that for now!

WHY was DAN making an announcement on Twitter instead of sending email to their customers that they would be removing all 'pariah names'? (I am only hearing about that tweet now). They also did not send any emails to say they had deleted certain names, like you get when you delete names from your folio.

Not emailing your customers about your planned actions and final action (like other marketplaces do when they remove a name) mean that visitors arrive at a 'DOMAIN DELETED' landing page.

Shame on you @DAN.COM for treating your customers in this awful and arrogant manner.


Maybe the way you did it is the new definition of great customer service.

I gave myself the pleasure of removing some 170 names from them to another marketplace that treats customers better. I still have 19 DOT app names with Dan. Maybe one of these days, I will log in to find them all deleted.

When is anybody gonna accuse the big boys that own the main 'pariah name' dot com for having a selling price for it.

Eni à lè mú là n l'èdí mó! Shiooor!

WTF! 🙂
 
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No official notification received, domains are still listed!

Cheers
Corey
 
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Good news.

Another great example here.

The poster has sold domains in the past like these:

Vodka.vin
Slots.vin
Jackpot.vin
Lottery.vin
MARIJUANASHOOT.COM

According to the WHO: 3 million deaths every year result from harmful use of alcohol, this represent 5.3 % of all global deaths.

It's very interesting to see multiple posters saying that banning the sales of pandemic-related domains is good, while they are profiting off things that already kill millions of people every year.

Also: "The North American Foundation for Gambling Addiction Help reports that approximately 2.6% of the U.S. population has some type of gambling issue. That adds up to nearly 10 million people in the United States who struggle with a gambling habit."
 
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why is there a fuss about domain names that aren't worth anything:

GoDaddy the owner of coronavirus.com ( as far as I understood .. )
values his domain name only at about $3K USD

so "greed" maybe not the right term


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and even the more trustworthy estibot tool,
-though they claim its a great extension and highly searched for-
show a similar price tag

- so it must be true
and we all can calm down...

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There are definitely some bad actors out there. You can just see with the blatant selling and marketing and promotion and PRICING of these domains.,

but I wonder where ambiguous "virus" domains fall under this category.

will new "virus" domain registrations fall under this crackdown? what about old ones?

Antivirus.com?
VirusDefender.com
VirusGuardian.com
VirusShield.com

There are currently 20,215 domain names containing the keyword "Virus". Many of those of course will be part of the "coronavirus" combos but many will be just "virus".

If an idea is viral then is it a virus? and therefore what about Viral+whatever.com?

If a recent post on here that means their domain CoronaDeTucson.com was delisted from Sedo just for being "similar" to coronavirus domains.

How will this end up?


Those are more - Computer/Tech related terms, i imagine those would be safe.
 
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I think you should ask them how much they want for the name. Definitely not $3,000.

Anyway, it was just plain evil not to notify customers, and allow visitors to arrive at a 'Domain deleted' page.

why is there a fuss about domain names that aren't worth anything:

GoDaddy the owner of coronavirus.com ( as far as I understood .. )
values his domain name only at about $3K USD

so "greed" maybe not the right term


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and even the more trustworthy estibot tool,
-though they claim its a great extension and highly searched for-
show a similar price tag

- so it must be true
and we all can calm down...

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I think you should ask them how much they want for the name. Definitely not $3,000.

Anyway, it was just plain evil not to notify customers, and allow visitors to arrive at a 'Domain deleted' page.

I agree!
 
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evil is a rather strong word to use for a company that felt a moral obligation do the right thing, in this case. If the names are so popular what need Dan? Just list it on you own page and take the hundreds of incoming offers? Thats what seems to be implied, or am I missing something? P.S. I'm no fan of Dan in general - so not a "picking sides" thing.
 
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why is there a fuss about domain names that aren't worth anything:

GoDaddy the owner of coronavirus.com ( as far as I understood .. )
values his domain name only at about $3K USD

so "greed" maybe not the right term


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and even the more trustworthy estibot tool,
-though they claim its a great extension and highly searched for-
show a similar price tag

- so it must be true
and we all can calm down...

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ummmmm............

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-n...crative-profiteering-website-domains-n1170411

Coronavirus.com

That domain name, more attractive with .com than .org, is reportedly owned by the domain registrar GoDaddy, which acquired it as part of a deal unrelated to the current outbreak and which currently forward visitors to the World Health Organization’s website.

https://domaininvesting.com/coronavirus-com-is-owned-by-godaddy/
 
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There are definitely some bad actors out there. You can just see with the blatant selling and marketing and promotion and PRICING of these domains.,

Haven't you try to flip coronavirus.es before it was seized from you?
 
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😂 😂 (at your comment on my using the word 'evil')

I don't know how many corona-related names were on Dan but if the number warranted them broadcasting on Twitter, the proper thing to do was to let their customers know. They were telling the world how 'moral' they were, but forgot customer service. They didn't owe their customers a direct notification before deletion or/and after deletion?

When you deliberately point your customers' potential customers to a dead end, without warning, that qualifies as evil. It shows their intention was sabotage.

I can just see how launching an offense against a thousand 'worthless corona domains' stops the plague, the wars, the famines, the murders, the rapes, the human trafficking and all the other immoral things in the world. It surely will also stop climate change.

God help us if a test kit seller/ manufacturer wanted to buy a 'covid19testkits' domain so they can sell their kits. The anti-corona gang will take to Twitter to broadcast their position that selling/buying the domain from a domainer for purposes other than corona-info or selling the kits at a profit constitutes an immoral act. (This paragraph is not directed at DAN, just at anyone who makes it their business to intimidate registrants of corona domains)

Organisations are inventing covid-19 products, test kits, protective equipment, ventilators, vaccines, cures etc. Some are seeing a spike in the sales of their products.
That's all fine and moral; only domainers are not allowed to make one cent. Registrars and the 'big boys' are exempted, of course! 😂 😂

I stated in my post I had 3 OFFERS. There was some traffic. I don't have a problem landing my own corona names, I just chose to use a platform.


evil is a rather strong word to use for a company that felt a moral obligation do the right thing, in this case. If the names are so popular what need Dan? Just list it on you own page and take the hundreds of incoming offers? Thats what seems to be implied, or am I missing something? P.S. I'm no fan of Dan in general - so not a "picking sides" thing.
 
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"Starting from today, we will be removing all Corona Virus related domains from http://DAN.COM .
We're seeing astronomical high prices being asked for these domains and find that unethical and unacceptable. We strongly encourage DAN sellers that own a Corona Virus oriented domain to donate the domain to a charity, government agency or non-profit organization that's involved in battling the virus and misinformation about it."

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One question! WHO WERE THESE THREE PEOPLE WHO PUT Offers IN FOR MY TWO NAMES ON DAN? 😂 I ask purely because of the arrogance of the 3rd bidder who wanted the name for £150 and resorted to calling me names instead of making a counter-offer! 😂

Why is it okay for people like Mike Mann or Godaddy to ask for 500k for a name they own but not okay for other 'little' domainers to 'shoot for the moon'?

@DAN.COM
Perhaps DAN.COM would like to show us evidence of the "astronomical high prices" being asked by these registrants!






 
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"Starting from today, we will be removing all Corona Virus related domains from http://DAN.COM .
We're seeing astronomical high prices being asked for these domains and find that unethical and unacceptable. We strongly encourage DAN sellers that own a Corona Virus oriented domain to donate the domain to a charity, government agency or non-profit organization that's involved in battling the virus and misinformation about it."


Who is to say that such recipients of donated domains would have the best interests of humanity in mind?
Many charities/figures/organizations are disguised as saviors and helpers of humanity when in fact they actually are connected to the cabal that wants the useless eaters dead - you know - the eugenicists - like the ones who erected the Georgia Guidestones.
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Why do we even care, cause its no more than a publicity stunt?
Epik still got you covered tho...
 
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This will be nice if same thing applied for other immoral niches.

Organizations have no need to own specific domain name to serve and provide their activities... now a day even unmemorable domain name can do the job.

Agreed if we talk about coronavirus.com or corona-virus.com or similar, but most of people that run to own them is just to build a project that show number of infected people, death etc... and making profits from ads.
 
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Dan is not the only marketplace!

Cheers
Corey
 
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after the pandemic in laters years, there may be more babies born due to StayHome policies
now what's wrong with the domain

coronababys / com
coronababy /com

( all gone )

simple solutions to complex problems
is how politicians get voters
but that's not the way you want to get customers for domain-related issues
 
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Perfect decision at this moment. Sedo should follow them.
 
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