Is anyone buying hurricane related domains?

[byteventures]

I just came across this article that says hundreds of domains for Hurricane Gustav were purchased recently. Can you receive good search engine rankings with these domains, or is it primarily used for scams?

http://www.bloggingcentral.com/169294Online-scammers-prep-for-Gustav-169294.php

 

[Michelle]

:notme:

 

[byteventures]

Haha nice. I started to look at possible names for the next hurricane. It is a male's name and begins with the letter K. I am predicting that it will be Hurricane Kurt. It's still available!

 

[guarddragon]

I got an email offering me the remaining hurricane names through Z. Does someone already have the prospective names? If so, they are probably registered already. Anyone else get that email? I blipped it away.

 

[Zona]

Here's a list of all the Atlantic Hurriance names through 2013: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

This list will repeat itself in 2014. All of these names have already been registered as have many of the typo possibilities.

As another note, all of these names with "huriance" (typo) have also been registered.

 

[GF]

I'm afraid a lot of these will be used to scam people.

 

[guarddragon]

Thanks, Zona!

 

[Zona]

I'm afraid a lot of these will be used to scam people.

Yep. Very sad

 

[ALG]

Yep. Very sad

Thats horrible! Why you say that?

 

[Premiere]

I would never scam people on mine! Just lots of yummy news on:

Hurricane Ike Info

 

[jeffoverman]

any one trying grab these type of names and resells them for a profit is making us all look like jack asses and poor taste

the good thing to do is grab names and draw traffic and then forward them to redcross

please dont do ppc parking on these names and make profits off it unless you plan to donate 100 percent to the cause.

sorry had to say this and mention this.... just my 2 cents

 

[Kate]

any one trying grab these type of names and resells them for a profit is making us all look like jack asses and poor taste

A-Greed
Bad taste and waste of money... we need to be more creative.

 

[Seabass]

A-Greed
Bad taste and waste of money... we need to be more creative.

I wonder if a good federal lawyer could construe these purchases somehow as profiteering from "desperate hurricane searches"?

Ah........how the Web is maturing.

 

[pertosda]

any one trying grab these type of names and resells them for a profit is making us all look like jack asses and poor taste

the good thing to do is grab names and draw traffic and then forward them to redcross

please dont do ppc parking on these names and make profits off it unless you plan to donate 100 percent to the cause.

sorry had to say this and mention this.... just my 2 cents

:bingo:

 

[DomainTraffic]

Well... My Thoughts

HMMMMM...


Good Thread !


sorry you got pretty much all run-around answers..


I own ~ americadisasterrelief / / / com


This Domain covers Huricanes - Floods - Earthquakes. ect

Still available is ~ USAdisasterrelief >com (if you are interested reg it.) (thank me later ! )


Because of your Thread i Regged ~ disasterreliefassitance >>com

I think people will be demanding Disaster Relief Assistance for years to come.


Thanks,

PDFR





:cy:

 

[bobbie]

HMMMMM...
Still available is ~ USAdisasterrelief >com (if you are interested reg it.) (thank me later ! )

I'll thank you now ... lol
Just got USAdisasterrelief >com, USAdisasterrelief >net, USAdisasterrelief >org

 

[jeffoverman]

hope you guys are going use these name to do the right thing!!!

 

[DomainTraffic]

> > I commend your invesment & i hope you help people

Now that i think about it ::


UsaDisasterRelief.com


is right on target !



you owe me an egg mc muffin. (just kidding)



GOOD LUCK ! (with your new domain) BUDDY




:hehe:

 

[bobbie]

I would never use these names to solicit donations ... just reselling them

 

[jeffoverman]

resell them to domainers?