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Yeah, it's about those eerie coronavirus-related domains again! 
These names cannot be found on the majority of domain marketplaces as they are barred from being listed on many sites for auction, or listed priced or on a 'Make Offer' basis. Some registries also stopped allowing the registration of covid-related domains. Some say their actions are to prevent profiting from the pandemic situation, while others say they adopted the position to prevent and/or stop fraudulent activities. And there was that one that 'quietly' removed covid names but kept the traffic' - until owners caught on.
It is very possible that these marketplaces mean what they tell the world, or it could just be that they didn't want to be seen as 'profiteers'(What do you call anyone who registers a name for $10 and sells it for anywhere between $1000 - $20 Million USD? What do call those who enable these transactions? Or companies that make millions yearly when they could easily pass on savings to customers by charging only a tenth of what they charge? I just can't remember
). Maybe they bowed to pressure from investors, individuals or groups within the industry who are angry that they missed out on registering the most relevant names during the early days of the Covid-19. Is it true that domainers engage in phishing, defrauding, and selling fake drugs using covid names? I don't think we shit on our doorstep but I know for sure that there are some of the anti-covid domain gang who are very angry that they couldn't buy these names of the early-birds for next to nothing with claims of wanting these domains for informational or charitable websites. I have met a few of them - online though, thankfully.
I have received insults and abuse, just because I did not wish to hand over a domain I registered for an unsatisfactory price. Why should I? Godaddy does not hand its domains over for peanuts, neither do the best and experienced in this game. Did they really want to buy the name in the first place? I don't know but I do know that these 'saints' have refused to take on the buyers and sellers of domain names that are used on the dark web and names that have to do with illicit sex, drugs, smoking etc. Maybe one of these days they will form a club against these names and their owners. I won't hold my breath!
Has this gang-up impacted the sales of covid-related names? Yes, it has, but sales are still happening, enquiries and traffic abound and will improve as more solutions are discovered for the Covid problem. The good thing is that anyone who wants your covid name will come still, regardless of what others think.
Has this same campaign affected the `angry crew`? Oh yes!
They want - for one project or the other (or so they say) , or to add to their portfolios - the very names they have publicly denounced. As these names are not available on the usual domain marketplaces, they find they have to go through the very few marketplaces that made up their own minds instead of bowing to pressure, and they ain't loving it!
They can't post requests for these names on forums like this one we are on, for fear of being shown to be the hypocritical profiteers that they actually are. They can't register covid names on some registries and through some registrars, thanks to their 'campaign' back then. They probably can't register new ones through the registries/registrars that remain open to covid-related registrations because they do not want to be outed someday as having one link or the other to any of these names.
Covid-19 is here, some of our colleagues are losing their prized domains due to having lost jobs or income due to the Pandemic - lost any hope of income from those names. Guess what? The names are being snapped up by the deep-pocketed who see nothing wrong in profiting from other peoples' misery. Some of these name-grabbers happen to be the very ones who labelled those who registered coronavirus-related domains as profiting from other people's misery.
We provide a service. We create a product. We think up names, register them, and sell them on. Jeff Bezos created a service, and sells products. His net worth has multiplied, his business has grown bigger, and he has provided more people with Jobs and income as a result of this pandemic; but we must be hung, drawn and quartered!
Society is still running - albeit at reduced capacity - thanks to the public and private Hospitals, health workers, Vaccine developers, Test kit manufacturers, drug manufacturers, Diagnostic Services providers, food, mail and parcel delivery services, online shops, farmers and farm workers, the Internet services industry, and all the others who keep us going, making none, little, improved or massive profits during these trying times, while we try to overcome Covid-19.
This epistle is dedicated to the toffee-nosed self-righteous gentleman who typed my domain name into his web browser, made a $500 offer out of his anti-'profiteering' rear!
I wonder why you didn't go offer Godaddy $500 for Coronavirus.com 
Shooooooooo! 
These names cannot be found on the majority of domain marketplaces as they are barred from being listed on many sites for auction, or listed priced or on a 'Make Offer' basis. Some registries also stopped allowing the registration of covid-related domains. Some say their actions are to prevent profiting from the pandemic situation, while others say they adopted the position to prevent and/or stop fraudulent activities. And there was that one that 'quietly' removed covid names but kept the traffic' - until owners caught on.
It is very possible that these marketplaces mean what they tell the world, or it could just be that they didn't want to be seen as 'profiteers'(What do you call anyone who registers a name for $10 and sells it for anywhere between $1000 - $20 Million USD? What do call those who enable these transactions? Or companies that make millions yearly when they could easily pass on savings to customers by charging only a tenth of what they charge? I just can't remember
). Maybe they bowed to pressure from investors, individuals or groups within the industry who are angry that they missed out on registering the most relevant names during the early days of the Covid-19. Is it true that domainers engage in phishing, defrauding, and selling fake drugs using covid names? I don't think we shit on our doorstep but I know for sure that there are some of the anti-covid domain gang who are very angry that they couldn't buy these names of the early-birds for next to nothing with claims of wanting these domains for informational or charitable websites. I have met a few of them - online though, thankfully.I have received insults and abuse, just because I did not wish to hand over a domain I registered for an unsatisfactory price. Why should I? Godaddy does not hand its domains over for peanuts, neither do the best and experienced in this game. Did they really want to buy the name in the first place? I don't know but I do know that these 'saints' have refused to take on the buyers and sellers of domain names that are used on the dark web and names that have to do with illicit sex, drugs, smoking etc. Maybe one of these days they will form a club against these names and their owners. I won't hold my breath!
Has this gang-up impacted the sales of covid-related names? Yes, it has, but sales are still happening, enquiries and traffic abound and will improve as more solutions are discovered for the Covid problem. The good thing is that anyone who wants your covid name will come still, regardless of what others think.
Has this same campaign affected the `angry crew`? Oh yes!
They want - for one project or the other (or so they say) , or to add to their portfolios - the very names they have publicly denounced. As these names are not available on the usual domain marketplaces, they find they have to go through the very few marketplaces that made up their own minds instead of bowing to pressure, and they ain't loving it!They can't post requests for these names on forums like this one we are on, for fear of being shown to be the hypocritical profiteers that they actually are. They can't register covid names on some registries and through some registrars, thanks to their 'campaign' back then. They probably can't register new ones through the registries/registrars that remain open to covid-related registrations because they do not want to be outed someday as having one link or the other to any of these names.
Covid-19 is here, some of our colleagues are losing their prized domains due to having lost jobs or income due to the Pandemic - lost any hope of income from those names. Guess what? The names are being snapped up by the deep-pocketed who see nothing wrong in profiting from other peoples' misery. Some of these name-grabbers happen to be the very ones who labelled those who registered coronavirus-related domains as profiting from other people's misery.
We provide a service. We create a product. We think up names, register them, and sell them on. Jeff Bezos created a service, and sells products. His net worth has multiplied, his business has grown bigger, and he has provided more people with Jobs and income as a result of this pandemic; but we must be hung, drawn and quartered!
Society is still running - albeit at reduced capacity - thanks to the public and private Hospitals, health workers, Vaccine developers, Test kit manufacturers, drug manufacturers, Diagnostic Services providers, food, mail and parcel delivery services, online shops, farmers and farm workers, the Internet services industry, and all the others who keep us going, making none, little, improved or massive profits during these trying times, while we try to overcome Covid-19.
This epistle is dedicated to the toffee-nosed self-righteous gentleman who typed my domain name into his web browser, made a $500 offer out of his anti-'profiteering' rear!
I wonder why you didn't go offer Godaddy $500 for Coronavirus.com Shooooooooo!
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