https://domaininvesting.com/coronavirus-com-is-owned-by-godaddy/With Coronavirus spreading around the world, you might be surprised to know that @GoDaddy recently acquired Coronavirus .com. Here's what the company is doing with this domain name:
https://domaininvesting.com/coronavirus-com-is-owned-by-godaddy/With Coronavirus spreading around the world, you might be surprised to know that @GoDaddy recently acquired Coronavirus .com. Here's what the company is doing with this domain name:
Kudos to GoDaddy for deciding to not monetize this domain name. If you visit Coronavirus.com, you can see it is forwarding to a page within the World Health Organization's website with information about this illness.
Here's what I wrote about it: https://domaininvesting.com/coronavirus-com-is-owned-by-godaddy/
I think forwarding the domain name to WHO is more helpful to visitors than showing advertising links, selling products that may not be helpful, sharing inaccurate information, or doing something else that is either unhelpful or harmful.
I doubt it is a "marketing ploy" as you suggested, but the company would probably prefer to see an article like the one I wrote rather than something like "GoDaddy Trying to Profit from Coronavirus."
GoDaddy could have sold the domain name or continued to monetize it post-acquisition, but the optics would probably have been bad.
Surgical masks are good only if:
1. You change it every 1-2 hours;
2. You do not put your hand on it after you put it on.
Healthy people will never die from corona virus. The death rate shows that the majority of the people who died are above 60+ years old and suffer from other diseases as well.
Stop making corona virus the apocalypse. You are just creating panic and fear.
If you have asthma as a person, then yes, you should be afraid because it is a deathly disease, if you are healthy, it is just a regular flu.
There is panic because the corona virus can affect RICH people as well, were as hunger, cannot.
People die from hunger daily in Africa.
People get AIDS every day because they are not buying a freakin` condom...
this is the worst trend of 2020 and corona domains give us a bad a name if trying to flip.
It comes to no surprise, Godaddy is trying to make themselves look like they have a heart, i tend to be more cynical, give to WHO, or CDC
after virus, Couldnt Corona beer file UDRP?
Elliot? Sorry, stupid name! (scary since beer...)
Samer
I very much doubt godaddy are a selfless, charitable company. Every indicator points to them being greedy cu*ts. They just want to get recognition and rep, just like every company that changed their logo to a rainbow version during june (like they give a sh*t)
But you are right that it's more helpful to visitors as a side effect.
I think it could have been a reputational hit if larger media companies wrote articles discussing how GoDaddy was monetizing it and/or looking to sell the domain name.
Kudos to GoDaddy for deciding to not monetize this domain name. If you visit Coronavirus.com, you can see it is forwarding to a page within the World Health Organization's website with information about this illness.
Here's what I wrote about it: https://domaininvesting.com/coronavirus-com-is-owned-by-godaddy/