https://domaininvesting.com/coronavirus-com-is-owned-by-godaddy/With Coronavirus spreading around the world, you might be surprised to know that @GoDaddy recently acquired Coronavirus .com. Here's what the company is doing with this domain name:
https://domaininvesting.com/coronavirus-com-is-owned-by-godaddy/With Coronavirus spreading around the world, you might be surprised to know that @GoDaddy recently acquired Coronavirus .com. Here's what the company is doing with this domain name:
I hope that you are right, but I feel we really don't know. The fact that even with extreme measures to try to control in China, there are so many cases, and that in some other regions (like parts of Italy) it has recently started spreading rapidly, is of concern.As for CoronaVirus, my sense is that the fear factor is more significant than the epidemiological risk.
I can think of some reasons why people fear Covid-19:
1. The incubation period was as long as 27 days.
2. Those infected can be asymptomatic, but can infect other people (i.e. hidden sources). That's why everyone should wear surgical face masks.
3. It is spread much faster than SARS and flu.
4. It can be spread via many ways such as respiratory droplets and contact with infected surfaces or objects.
5. There is currently no vaccine or specific antiviral treatment.
6. The fatality rate is higher than the flu's rate.
7. The fatality rate and the number of confirmed cases may be understated by governments for political and economic reasons.
8. The cured people can be infected again.
9. Infected people's lungs may lose part of functionality forever.
10. It starts spreading over the world with no sign of stopping the spread.
Btw, it is good to know that Coronavirus.com is redirected to WHO website. I hope it will not be available for sale in the future.
Kudos to GoDaddy for deciding to not monetize this domain name. If you visit Coronavirus.com, you can see it is forwarding to a page within the World Health Organization's website with information about this illness.
Here's what I wrote about it: https://domaininvesting.com/coronavirus-com-is-owned-by-godaddy/
Greater good? Lol.
It's just a marketing ploy to gain more rep. I'm sure that people writing articles about their noble deeds (such as yourself) help them achieve exactly that.
I think forwarding the domain name to WHO is more helpful to visitors than showing advertising links, selling products that may not be helpful, sharing inaccurate information, or doing something else that is either unhelpful or harmful.
I doubt it is a "marketing ploy" as you suggested, but the company would probably prefer to see an article like the one I wrote rather than something like "GoDaddy Trying to Profit from Coronavirus."
GoDaddy could have sold the domain name or continued to monetize it post-acquisition, but the optics would probably have been bad.
I very much doubt godaddy are a selfless, charitable company. Every indicator points to them being greedy cu*ts. They just want to get recognition and rep, just like every company that changed their logo to a rainbow version during june (like they give a sh*t)
But you are right that it's more helpful to visitors as a side effect.
I think it could have been a reputational hit if larger media companies wrote articles discussing how GoDaddy was monetizing it and/or looking to sell the domain name.
Surgical masks are good only if:
1. You change it every 1-2 hours;
2. You do not put your hand on it after you put it on.
Healthy people will never die from corona virus. The death rate shows that the majority of the people who died are above 60+ years old and suffer from other diseases as well.
Stop making corona virus the apocalypse. You are just creating panic and fear.
If you have asthma as a person, then yes, you should be afraid because it is a deathly disease, if you are healthy, it is just a regular flu.
There is panic because the corona virus can affect RICH people as well, were as hunger, cannot.
People die from hunger daily in Africa.
People get AIDS every day because they are not buying a freakin` condom...
Kudos to GoDaddy for deciding to not monetize this domain name. If you visit Coronavirus.com, you can see it is forwarding to a page within the World Health Organization's website with information about this illness.
Here's what I wrote about it: https://domaininvesting.com/coronavirus-com-is-owned-by-godaddy/