I think the final sentence in your article is good advice
@EJS. Rather than bother overburdened organizations by seeing if they want a domain name donated, it is probably most efficient to forward the name to a responsible information source.
I think DAN have made the right move, although implementing it will have many challenges.
will new "virus" domain registrations fall under this crackdown? what about old ones?
I don't know but suspect not. This kind of name could even be applied to computer or other types of virus that are unrelated to health. But it demonstrates that the dividing line is difficult. For example, corona is a region of the sun. Supposedly domains might have meaning in that sense, or others. i think DAN intentions are good, but it will be difficult to do in practice.
It will be interesting to see if the other marketplaces follow (or have some already?).
Namecheap yesterday informed customers that they were banning the ability to register names involving covid, coronavirus. An organization, such as a research group, that feels it has a legitimate case, can request through support a registration. Does anyone know if other registrars are doing this?
Bob
PS Just after I posted this I see that
@Rob Monster posted the
position at Epik on the issue.
got it 
