Popular child actor Gary Coleman hasn’t been buried yet – his funeral is planned for either Friday or this weekend in Salt Lake City – but the domainer vultures have already performed their usual desecration of a dead person’s carcass.
Just as we predicted – once again DomainGang.com delivers reality through the eye of sarcasm, parody and humor – all major TLDs that were available at the time of Gary Coleman’s death are now taken.
For example, the .net was registered on the date of Gary Coleman’s death and is parked at Sedo, while the .biz was registered the following day and is being forwarded to a web site with a couple of pictures of the late comedian and laden with ads.
What a complete and utter shame.
It’s disgusting seeing how cybersquatting – the act of monetizing the fame of individuals alive or dead – has been taken to an extreme by those who prey on the death of actors or celebrities.
This is exactly what gives domainers a bad name and that’s a fine example of what to avoid when registering domain names. Don’t do it!
I think it is totally deplorable to try and exploit events like this, there should be some sortof domaining code of conduct but people are just to eager to make a quick buck these days. Dare I take a swipe at a luminary but even Schwartz recently posted about how he has been hand registering domains pertaining to the BP oil disaster. In my opinion this kind of thing is not clever or entrepreneurial, it’s just undignified, midless profiteering and as you say, gives us all a bad name.
RIP Gary Coleman.
Salutations to DG for telling it like it T-I-Z…tiz in this example where the man has not even been buried as the domain vultures circle.
I only hope the public can recognize the difference between a web site and a shitty attempt at posting ads.