Ignorance is also a disease.
We saw a lot of silly arguments about the right to use Ebola.com, from people that do not understand nor appreciate how domain investing works.
Here’s a list of the top 10 deadly diseases in reverse order, and who owns the respective .com domain, and what do they do with it:
- Cancer.com – Owned by Johnson & Johnson. No active web site, currently.
- Malaria.com – Owned by Epicenter Communications, the active site provides up to date information on the disease.
- Tuberculosis.com – Owned by Sanofi Pasteur, a pharma company. The landing page announces the site’s ownership.
- Diarrhea.com – Owned by Procter & Gamble, the live web site promotes commercial products controlling conditions of the digestive system.
- Perinatal.com – Owned by Mednax, a medical group. The active web site displays content related to their business.
- COPD.com (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) – Owned by GlaxoSmithKline corporation. The active web site is a resource portal.
- HIV.com – Privately owned. The active web site provides information, and generates revenue from affiliate links.
- LowerRespiratoryInfections.com – Unregistered, BuyDomains used to own it. If you really want it, it’s available.
- Stroke.com – Owned by Sanofi, the French pharmaceutical giant. The live web site is used by Bristol-Myers Squibb, another mega-pharma corporation that Sanofi collaborates with.
- IschemicHeartDisease.com – Privately owned and parked at Domain Name Sales, but without a for sale sign.
I couldn’t resist being one of those “top 10” (ha, ha) creepy “squatters” and took that ugly-looking longtail disease-ridden squatters’ name.
This is my first “disease” domain — I am prone to these respiratory infections.
Just letting you know…
LOL 😀 Good luck and keep some aspirin handy.
LowerRespiratoryInfection.com, the singular, which is way better than the plural, is also available as of now.
Personally it’s a bit too long for our tastes 🙂
Frank (Schilling) owns RespiratoryInfection.com (the singular!), InnovationHQ holds UpperRespiratoryInfection.com, Elequa aka FMA owns Pneumonia.com and a German entity with healthcare clients owns Bronchitis.com.
DomainGang, IschemicHeartDisease.com has a small For Sale link to GoDaddy at the bottom.
😉
I have some ebola related domains:
eEbola.com
EbolaLondon.com
EbolaNYC.com
I don’t think I am a squatter……..I am investor
Someone registered also LowerRespiratoryInfection.com :D, under Uniregistry privacy 😉
Guess who …
Lol.
I also have these for grabs.
TalkEbola.com
TalkEbola.net
Talkebola.info
Just an investor,i’m no squatter.