Katrina.com Story

[mf]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this before or not, but have you guys heard the story behind katrina.com (original story http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9164927/from/RL.4/ )? Some lady was just running katrina.com as her personal website for her web design services, and then hurricane katrina hit. After the hurricane, she got an offer of $500,000 for the domain, and the website started recieving so much traffic that her connection couldn't handle it (she decliened the offer).

I guess bad things really do bring good things (for some people).

Now that some of the hurricanes are being named after greek letters, should we see a trend in domains that are greek letters going up in value?

 

[stscac]

I went to the site after katrina hit (while it was still active). Great thing she did.

-Steve

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Im just waiting for Hurricane "l8(.org.uk)", "k8(.org.uk)", "h8(.org.uk)" or "w8(.org.uk)" to hit then I can sell the blasted things.

Id rather not have a hurricane destroy lives than have my domain recieve loads of hits

 

[wasistdas]

Aha, and many ppl wil get to Delta website to order tickets to fly through Delta hurricane

 

[CrazyTech]

Now that some of the hurricanes are being named after greek letters, should we see a trend in domains that are greek letters going up in value?

I truly doubt it. Katrina brought what it did because it was such a devastating storm. The greek letter storms have been bad in some instances but I don't think they got near the publicity and large destruction that Katrina brought. This particular storm hit the US which has a large online population as well. The factors for Katrina.com are not the same as the greek letter storms in general.

However, this is a testament to how many people still type in name.com when they want to find something.

 

[redz]

Hurricane domains are not good, well they can be good for a fast profit. Think bout it, In order for people to come to your site so they could donate so you can donate to red cross, the hurricane must do a lot of damage, while you are making money others are broke . I say People shouldnt make hurricane names. But that is only my opinion