A Line I Will Not Cross - More Morally Absent-Minded Souls

[dhscott]

I have found a few more morally disturbing names; This time surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann; the girl who disappeared while on holiday in Portugal (Presumably Snatched).

I know these people aren't doing anything wrong, but I feel it is MY moral obligation to reveal what they have said about the domains as a description...

Face it, Madeleine McCann is dead, and by purchasing this domain now, you can cash in on the click ad and profiting frenzy,

The description is the same for both listings. It sickens me obviously; but I cannot deny that he is doing nothing wrong and I won't try and stop them.

I won't release the domain names publically on here, don't want to give them publicity...


However, among this (obvious) jerks portfolio are a couple more insights into his backward-thinking mind with a couple of Racist names. Namely stating bluntly that Racism Works and boldly shouting White Pride Forever.

I'm sickened, but not surprised that a White Supremesist would register Immoral Names. And obviously I won't name them; they have done nothing wrong. BUT I felt obliged to show you that quote on how low some people can go to get a small profit.

PM Me if you want more information.

 

[DN Broker-59872]

Disgusting! And very sad, in both senses!

Rep added. :great:

 

[BidNo]

Agree, quite sad. I am happy to note there's been extensive discussion on a "Code of Conduct" for our industry. I eagerly wait the day when there is a clear and definable divide between such repugnant behavior and how the rest of us do business.

 

[verbster]

It has always been thus....the never ending war.

 

[goodkarmaco]

The lengthy discussion is that we have no right to make a dividing line.

We do what Dhscott did and that is understand that the person who regs a name that we don't like has a right to do it. Also they have the right to sell it. That is what the long discussion concluded in my opinion, that it is the owner of the name that decides his/ her registrations or names to sell.

I tend to think the person who made the statements to cash in on the frenzy sounds like a little kid who wants to make some money with his newfound domain business. He does not sound like a seasoned domainer.

Yes I think what he says sounds very stupid for a way to get people interested in his domain. But I understand he may be a noobie or very inexperienced in the domain business, so why pay any attention to it?.

If you were new to domaining maybe you would be excited that you regged a domain for a subject everyone is talking about. They will grow up after they learn the ropes.

They in no way represent the domain business.

 

[Traveler]

They in no way represent the domain business.

They don't represent it as a whole, but unfortunately they represent the "dark side" of domaining.

While most of us don't go there, some do and will inevitably be the ones shown as examples as to why all domainers are bad.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Lets say one employee or two at the post office steals a stamp or two. Does that make the post office bad?, lol

 

[Traveler]

Lets say one employee or two at the post office steals a stamp or two. Does that make the post office bad?, lol

No but the employee that shoots everyone at the office sure doesn't help.

 

[DN Broker-59872]

They don't represent it as a whole, but unfortunately they represent the "dark side" of domaining.

While most of us don't go there, some do and will inevitably be the ones shown as examples as to why all domainers are bad.

Absolutely, you can count on that.

It makes it even sadder that right now there is absolutely no need to even think of getting close to the dark side - it's not like we are in the cut-throat SEO business where the White Hat guys don't stand a chance of getting to the top of the competitive SERPs. In domaining it so much easier to stay on the right side of the line!

 

[labrocca]

I understand your disgust but really I fail to see this as a domain discussion. You are basically just personally attacking this person via proxy. If you are saying people can be immoral and unethical then you aren't telling us anything we don't know already.

If you want you can spend all day finding the evil ways people live. Interesting that you rant about a guy registering a domain but what's that evil in comparison to the person that abducted and killed the little girl?

Face it, Madeleine McCann is dead, and by purchasing this domain now, you can cash in on the click ad and profiting frenzy,

He doesn't have any tact obviously but that's not a crime. Basically nothing he says in that statement is incorrect. I can almost guarantee that someone will buy the name if his price is low enough. There is no shortage of people that don't care HOW they make a buck.

 

[goodkarmaco]

The news of the guy shooting people at the post office is not going to lower our respect for the hard working honest postal workers, nor will it keep us from sending our mail thru them, witness the uni bo-ber who scared this nation with mail tampering. Every one of us went to the post just like before and we did not look at the post office as any less than what it is, a top notch carrier of letters.

Now if no other domain person ever did good or made the news in a positive way I would say a little news about a tragedy reg would have a negative bearing. But when weighed in against all the positive news those of us who are involved in the domain business do, I have no fear about our image.

I think you are right about the fact that the guy may sell his domain. The thing is though, that name and the ones reg like that, will never sell for much, $50.00 if he is lucky, so why even discuss it? It is a poor quality name and can never be worth much.

We all know when anything happens that hits the news some domainer will snap it up. Are we going to go off into eternity talking about these names that we would not even bid $5.00 for on the Bazaar?

 

[goodkarmaco]

Sorry posted twice

 

[DN Broker-59872]

I understand your disgust but really I fail to see this as a domain discussion. You are basically just personally attacking this person via proxy. If you are saying people can be immoral and unethical then you aren't telling us anything we don't know already.

If you want you can spend all day finding the evil ways people live. Interesting that you rant about a guy registering a domain but what's that evil in comparison to the person that abducted and killed the little girl?



He doesn't have any tact obviously but that's not a crime. Basically nothing he says in that statement is incorrect. I can almost guarantee that someone will buy the name if his price is low enough. There is no shortage of people that don't care HOW they make a buck.

Labrocca, I really hope you are just playing devil's advocate here, and/or perhaps it was too late in the day to read the original post in detail - I notice you did make the post in the small hours of the morning...

 

[RogueWriter]

Wow, if that quote in the first post is accurate, that's one of the coldest, harshest approach I've ever seen to try and make a quick buck. Certainly, not illegal, but certainly, also, if they were talking about a relative of mine, they and I would at some point meet face to face.

 

[-LB-]

Me and RogueWriter share the same thought there.

This is discusting. I cannot believe there are sickening people out there that would say such a thing about Madeleine. It makes me so angry... The parents are so stressed and the media wont go away...trust me - they live a few mins away from me there's press vans and helicopters everywhere...What happened to the old quiet Leicestershire village I knew before...

 

[Deaol]

absolutely ridiculous, it sickens me to think this is happening, and for the person purchasing these names to have that kind of attitude (quoted in forst post)

:td:

 

[Domagon]

Registering such domains (for the record I don't own any) pales in comparison to the media feeding frenzy - flip on any news station and it's wall to wall coverage about the Madeleine saga.

Who can forget the VT shooting ... yes, some domainers took advantage of the situation, but what NBC did, by airing the shooter's video, was a zillion times worse!

Digressing a bit, but point is that for those concerned about the morality of such actions should target the mass media - that's where much of the nonsense originates - they play up a story to the point that it becomes profitable to buy such domains ...

Take the profit out of it ... if the news media stopped covering such news items wall to wall, the related domain registrations that often occur would dry up.

Ron

 

[goodkarmaco]

Very good point and do you think the media will ever back off?. We know the answer to that and thus the registering of domans for every kind of event will be a reality.

 

[-LB-]

The media basically run the world. Everything we know as a fact will somehow be brainwashed by the media... I think it's pathetic and still think that registering these domains is morally wrong...especially that quote in post #1...

People making money from things like this is sick IMO.