Ebola domains are spreading around the world.
A quasi-promotional article in the Washington Post covers the domain Ebola.com, and refers to its owner, Jon Schultz as a “merchant of disease.”
It’s not just that Schultz is seeking six figures for Ebola.com, a conservative amount by all means.
According to the article, Jon Schultz’s other domains include BirdFlu.com (acquired for $20,000), H1N1.com and a couple of other exotic disease domains.
For the first time, the acquisition price of Ebola.com is disclosed: a mere $13,500 in 2008; the current asking price is $150,000.
The comments in the article appear to be rather unsavory for such domain investments as well.
For the full article, titled “The merchant of disease who wants six figures for Ebola.com” click here.
The dude did himself no favors with his photo and comments. He looks and talks like a douche. He blew a real opportunity..
Chip – I agree that the photo is reminiscent of Hugh Hefner’s attire but still, one should not judge a book by its cover.
In a comment, Jon Schultz responded thus to the writer of the Washington Post article:
“This is not only a mean-spirited article in which Mr. McCoy seeks to impress people with how moral he is by criticizing me for doing nothing but buying a piece of property and looking to sell it at a profit (and sacrificing about $5,000 in domain parking revenue to have a site up with a link where people can make a donation to Doctors Without Borders), but his quotes of me are inaccurate as well. I am sure he cannot produce a recording of our conversation because the quotes which he provided are not exact quotes and do not accurately portray my sentiments.
I hope you are fired by the Washington Post, Terrrence, as you certainly deserve to be. This is nothing but tabloid journalism. “