Hi,
Most of us know that purchasing domains with future appreciation potential can be a business in itself. I’ve been a ‘victim’ of that myself working with acquiring a domain name for a business owned by domain speculators. You end up having to deal with people who have no other interest in the domain than being able to squeeze as much money out of it as possible. It’s their business and they will claim they are taking on a risk purchasing Internet real estate that may not appreciate and should be rewarded accordingly if they hit jackpot.
I do not really know how I feel about this, but when I found out that ‘Ebola.com’ is for sale by people who purchased it hoping it would appreciate over time I got this bad taste in my mouth since what they are betting on is what we are seeing now: Ebola hitting the news because people are suffering and dying from it. The owners of the domain my claim that the appreciation of the domain could also be based on someone finding a cure, but I think they know that what has happened now through this outbreak may be very good for their bottom line.
Again, I am ambivalent in this regard and think that people should be able to deal in domain names. The question is if there should be some limitations attached to this trade so that we do not see a couple of people getting rich by an outbreak of something as horrific as Ebola.
Come to think of it, is ‘pandemic.com’ taken or offered for sale at a reasonable price? 🙂
