Pope pious and the 12 domainers
I see no difference investing for profits or investing in tragedy domains. They both are done in the name of profits. I guess that line of thinking is how those who buy stocks of companies that create weapons for ilegal wars can sleep at night.
So does that mean you also stand outside the florist shop and picket them for selling flowers when a teen dies in a auto wreck? Those florists sure are low lifes for profiting from the pain and suffering of others.
Please do not forget to picket that flower shop or morgue if they don't provide the said services for bono whenever a tragedy comes along and someone bites the dust or is found in the woods dead. Compared to the billions made monthly by those business providers and the pennies from domains of tragedy one would think after domain fest all the folks here with a soft heart would be drawing media attention with foghorns and signs to those local places like florists, morgues, and don't forget the biggest profitters of pain and suffering the newspapers. Do you try to stop them from making a profit by publishing the news?
Maybe you protest every movie of a person who was abducted and found murdered as these movies are often made as real life stories. What did we forget these movies are made for profit, oh yeah and the actors get a millions for staring in them. And you probably really like and respect those actors right?
The tiny bit of money made from a few,( mostly newbies) who soon learn they make only pennies a month from tragedy domains is nothing compared to other industries that you and I support everyday, yet we don't give any emotion to it. Domainers who seem to think this is a big deal just want others to see that they are caring.
Did you protest the war in Irag where thousands of children were burned alive by our solders or were knifed to death or were raped and then killed? Remember this was a war based solely on lies, so every solder was profiting from that(take home pay). Once we ponder that the next line of reasoning would be you knowing this injustice then should be boycotting taxes even if it meant jail right?
My point is the couple thousand dollars made world wide by those who park such a name is not at all representive of this business, so lets do what Adam Smith says and pursue our own happiness by running our own business and not meddling in what other domainers do.
I am sure most who think the person who does this is terrible. I ask is this any worse (in my opinion not even close)then when each one of us gets in our cars and start the engines to go to work. The car raises pollution levels. You and I are responsible for the epidemic new cancers and leukemia children are getting now. The medical profession says this sickness and disease is alarmingly high,"how could they do that".
I know I have done this how about you folks.. ever pour some kind of caustic liguid on the ground or down the sink? Another little kid gets luekemia or some cancer.
We all tip our hats to the big shots in the domain field who fly from this continent to that one many times a year. It is fact jets cause major pollution. This is much worse for the millions of children dying from cancers caused by air travel. Acid rain and pollution all are killing children, but those parties at those domain fests are so fun I hear.
Why not expose those who are doing this?. I will tell you why. Because we sound like such good people when we care that some other person is profiting from a childs tragedy, yet we do this daily. Unless of course you never drive a car, take a taxi, fly or pollute in any other way.
Parking is a joke so why worry about it? They will soon learn there is not money in tragedy domains. But to try to make this action which is never going to change a public education thing is only going to hurt the domain profession.
Is this what we need...
Domainers earn money from missing or killed children as a headline in major newspapers certainly does us no good.
Don't laugh how do you think the media learned what cybersquating is or parked domains. Parking use to be something to be proud of earning money from using our brains to figure out how to monetize words. Then some who thought this was a ugly way to manage a domain name and their converts even termed phrases like "if you don't make a web site you should forfiet the name to someone who will use the name properly" Get your own domain damn it and use it the way you see fit. If you reg a tm name or child porn then you will be crossing the line. Other than that domaining is a business each person decides how to run. Like any business they are either inside the law or outside the law. Thats all that matters to registrarrs and others, after all it was their $9.99 that was spent to own the name. You got a problem with the domain and think it is a tm then sue.
Giving the media something else to label us as dirt bags is not a bit smart. Media learns it all from us right here while they scan what domainers do for possible articles. Because domainers taught them. Every week bloggers and the media writers visit this place and would it benefit us if they stumble upon "domainers who register tragedy domains for profit".
I say mind our own businesses and grow them and this tiny aspect of domaining can and will stay in the background of nothingness. Blow the horns and whistles and we get a black eye for it, those of us who are working professionals who love domaining do not deserve that.
