Domainer Ethics
Yesterday a friend contacted me about a domain that expired and was recently sold at Godaddy auctions. The name was being used for a Catholic elementary school website. It displayed upcoming fundraisers for the general public as well as internal school information for the students and parents to access.
Shortly after the completion of transaction, the domain that numerous children navigate to everyday, redirected to Russian porn.
I contacted the new owner of the domain, and they immediately took the porn redirect down, so I won’t mention which domain it was. It makes me think of the larger issue of domainer ethics and responsibility, not only to the industry but to society in general.
If Russian porn is how you make money, that’s fine, but if you’re going to use recently expired domains that had been running as websites up until the time they expired, make sure that they weren’t sites that targeted children.
I actually think that the porn redirect might simply be a sales ransom tactic. I found an article with a similar situation, the domain had expired and the previous owner found their real estate business domain resolving to porn and basically had to pay the ransom to get the porn taken down.
I asked the new owners if it would be possible to get the School’s domain back for their website and they responded, “it might be possible, but it won’t be cheap, possible several grand”. I think that if you’re approached by a previous owner right after you obtain a name, especially if it was owned by a non profit organization, that it’s only reasonable to sell them back the name for a nominal price, taking into account your time and effort.
This brings up another point, the general public are clueless as to how a domain life cycle works. The school website didn’t resolve after it expired, but the volunteer that ran the site had no idea what the issue was. I’m sure they received several emails from Godaddy advising them that the name had expired.
We invest in domains to make money, some full time and some as a hobby. There are plenty of opportunities to make money using ethical and non controversial methods.
- Main List NameJet Flippa/Sedo
- LLLL.com’s LLL, CCC, 5L Other LLLL’s
- Short Brandables Numbers One Worders Vape, Vegan, VR
- Snap Names/Dropcatch NamePros Godaddy Value BIN
Main List
Names With Bids
Fotto.com Phonetic for Photo, with an extra T
u1c.com CCC
The No Bid List
AbleGuardian.com Could be security or custody
AhZen.com I like this name a lot, it’s short and starts with an contented “Ah”
AirMeasure.com How much air do you have?
AllNaturalFlow.com Herbal supplement for prostate health
AllThrills.com Nothing but excitement
ArgueLess.com A mediation of counselling name
AskTheSherpa.com A Cyger spin off, you ask your domain question and get a qualified response. For a nominal fee your question will be answered by a panel of 3 Sherpa’s each with their own opinion and take on the question
AutoSimplify.com Make things easier without any effort
BattleDarkness.com The classic fight of light vs dart, good vs evil
BedShield.com Keep the bed bugs from destroying your bed with the bed shield
Bugio.com nice little 5L brand
BumOut.com a vacation or relaxation name, Find a place to bum out for the weekend
BuyOrgan.com Need a new kidney? Go to BuyOrgan.com, hey it’s the black market and may have been stolen from a kidnapped tourist, but at least you’ll have your new kidney
CityForAll.com Sell this name so a sanctuary city :)
CodeGamer.com An open source gaming website, where the members play and modify the games
CollapseRescue.com If you have the misfortune of being a building that collapses, a Collapse Rescue team will come to get you out
DailyDepot.com A site that has new deals everyday
DeathYear.com Find out the year that someone died, or preplan your own death by setting the date yourself
DegreeMax.com An online college affiliate site
DoMorrow.com Old English, Will thou do thy bidding on the morrow?
EndConstipation.com Sell prunes
FlightCritic.com A blog of airline reviews
GenieVault.com The only way in to this vault is with a wish
GhostPoop.com Could be all over the place and you wouldn’t even know
GorillaTactical.com Of all the words you could add to tactical to make a brand this one fits really well. It makes me think of freedom fighters or unconventional soldiers. I can also envision the logo, a gorilla dressed like Rambo, carry a saw ( Squad Automatic Weapon).
GreenRum.com all natural rum
HerdSmart.com The name that knows how the crowd will act before they do
JustReason.com I had a just reason in committing that crime
LavaTrip.com A volcano travel name
MobileStriker.com Strikes on the move
MrsBunny.com Mrs bunny has hundreds and hundreds of children
NoBaldness.com regrow your hair or wear a visor.
NySuite.com Sell a luxury suite in Ny
OnlineEstimator.com Not sure what it’s estimating, could be anything
PandaPoll.com Find out what Panda’s think about any given topic
PrepareTravel.com Get ready to go
ReadyBuck.com Cash available at a moments notice
RushPlumber.com Have a leak? Call the rush plumber for help
SepticEye.com I had this done on a sewer line, they send a camera in to see what the problem is
ShuffleBot.com A card shuffling robot, makes it impossible to count cards
SproutBot.com A garden robot
Check out the rest of the Names With No Bids HERE
Namejet
1Seed.com If your looking for seeds, this one will show up first in the phone book…
Juiciness.com Makes me think of peaches. I prefer nectarines, no fuzz.
UltraStrip.com
PhotoDigital.com
AntiMedia.com
BuildTalk.com
ylww.com
ExaltedWord.com
SurvivalTips.com
GeoCampaign.com
DangerRanger.com
SexExplained.com
VocalEffects.com
GearSaver.com
TotalTour.com
AnimalEarth.com
HostSwift.com
Flippa/SEDO
Save Money With Daddy Bulk Domain Registration
Your LLLL.coms of The Day
hlcn.com
raor.com
nlxo.com
mnzo.com
LLLL’s that End Users Might use someday
Nano.cc
xfyc.net
ltnj.net
oada.org
verc.org
Curl.inf
LLL’s, CCC’s, 5L’s
Brandables
Barooga.com
Bofeo.com
Capitor.com
Caweo.com
Cawio.com
Cervox.com
Chupoo.com
Dojum.com
Dulora.com
Ezotia.com
Fenob.com
Fepod.com
Fepof.com
Flavac.com
Fleos.com
Fozier.com
Frazza.com
Frecio.com
Fupox.com
Geceb.com
Gidian.com
Happyzo.com
Hebup.com
Ikest.com
Jigea.com
Laterer.com
Livty.com
Noyem.com
Pefot.com
Peleb.com
Pemef.com
Pobad.com
Refob.com
Retob.com
Rimig.com
Sbudz.com
Slivova.com
Stooza.com
Tarrg.com
Temep.com
Thyrium.com
Zerish.com
Zezda.com
Zixar.com
Zuluzo.com
MORE Short Brand Dot Coms HERE
Some Numbers
991120.com
137199.com
137399.com
137299.com
137599.com
800870.com
137099.com
36mk.com
rm79.com
One Worders and Other TLD’s
Lucks.org
Leader.biz
Widowed.net
Weirdos.org
Psychol.org
Koshers.net
Minority.cc
Integral.cc
Battalia.net
Bounties.org
Constitution.cc
Neurotransmitter.org
Vape, Weed and Vegan Names and VR
Snap Names/DropCatch
NamePros
VanillaEspresso.com
ArmyKnives.net
CustomBuilders.net
GeocachingMaps.com
PowerMarketeer.com
FreelanceHires.com
CrowdRole.com
NewYorkHires.com
PendingDrops.com
ShippedGoods.com
MonthlyTasks.com
DoverAttorney.com
Abolish.net
MouldCompany.com
StrongTaste.com
Godaddy Value BIN
Godaddy Value BIN
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