Ismailax.com == Bloody Massacre Domain???

[Raider]

It wouldn't or couldn't possibly be that they are catching flack for sensationalizing and profiteering off the greatest single day shooting since the '60's now would it?

The greatest single day? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you chose the wrong word. What are we in the 3rd or 4th day and your saying its sensationalizing? GMAB!. Family members and students have expressed to the media they don't want to hear this guys name or see his face, can say I blame them, who wants to hear about a delusional mental case that killed there loved ones?, The media is getting the message and applying the brakes, lets hope they keep there foot on the pedal....

Actually I have to disagree again.

Do you think I care?...:no:

When the reporting slows down, so will the traffic to those domains, perhaps 2 months or less nobody is going to want them anymore. Right about this time next year, we'll be looking at these domains expiring, should be entertaining watching these inflated $50K-$500K tragic domains pop and drop! :lol:

NightLine ran a short segmant last night about registering and selling tragic domains on ebay, which is nothing new, but it is getting some media attention....try pulling it from there site if its there.

 

[Sarcle]

Was not done in this case.

Not over yet - books will be written.

Media did not reg this name.

Never said they did.

Your point here is 100% speculation when the point of a redirect, irrelevant ads, and a waste of time to deliver the search term was fact, not speculation.

I pointed that out in the first sentence it was speculation. As was your comment that he's the only one benefiting.

How did they know the story, from Bozo the domainer?

Um... every tv channel in the states maybe?


See it's easy to quote a single sentence without any explanation.

 

[leo]

umm i dunno if its already mentioned but the owner of this domain has made a thread in NP..you should check it out

 

[Sarcle]

When the reporting slows down, so will the traffic to those domains, perhaps 2 months or less nobody is going to want them anymore. Right about this time next year, we'll be looking at these domains expiring, should be entertaining watching these inflated $50K-$500K tragic domains pop and drop! :lol:

NightLine ran a short segmant last night about registering and selling tragic domains on ebay, which is nothing new, but it is getting some media attention....try pulling it from there site if its there.

Your digression is lovely but the title of this thread is about this particular domain. You keep wanting to run about every single person that has tried to sell these on ebay for 50k.

Here is what the owner of THIS DOMAIN had to say.

As expected my current server hosting would not handle this onslaught of traffic. I am now getting 10's of thousands of hits per hour. I simply can not afford this kind of bandwidth. The name is now parked and any ppc income generated, will be used to pay for server hosting and the building of a informational/memorial website for the victims of this terrible tradgey.
Ray

I believe many people owe this person a public apology.

 

[Gerry]

See it's easy to quote a single sentence without any explanation.

Finding that to be increasingly the trend in this entire forum and in particular on this thread. So many of my comments have been taken out of context, twisted added on to that when I see some of my partial content it is not even mine anymore.

As in keeping with the internet, too many are "scanning" content like bots and picking up certain keywords.

Guess we should be regging the hell out of those.

umm i dunno if its already mentioned but the owner of this domain has made a thread in NP..you should check it out

Link please?

 

[jasdon11]

http://www.namepros.com/the-break-room/317895-regd-ismailax-com-va-tech-related.html

 

[Gerry]

I believe many people owe this person a public apology.

Owe him a public apology? For what?

The name is now parked and any ppc income generated, will be used to pay for server hosting and the building of a informational/memorial website for the victims of this terrible tradgey.

Give me a ****ing break. Owe him an apology.

Redirect the domain to http://www.vt.edu/tragedy/memorial_fund.php.

THAT is the one and only official memorial site and fund. This is ****ing absurd for you to stick up for this profiteer and validate his claim and your claim that his intentions were and have been good.

Continue to live in a world that you created for yourself and share it with you new pal Raymond.

Talk to me about speculating. Like every damn person on earth and in this forum believes he is going to use every ****ing penny to create "an informational/memorial website" that he will not continue to profit from.

How ****ing honorable to bow down to the pressure and have contributions made to the fund. Why don't I just send a check to:

Patterson, Raymond
c/o FixTips.com
6635 S.Staples
Corpus Christi, Texas 78413
United States

What a ****ing circus atmosphere this bullshit and thread has become.

I just react to the world in which I live.

We are obviously on two different worlds if you are buying into that bullshit and trying to sell it now.

 

[Sarcle]

Finding that to be increasingly the trend in this entire forum and in particular on this thread. So many of my comments have been taken out of context, twisted added on to that when I see some of my partial content it is not even mine anymore.

As in keeping with the internet, too many are "scanning" content like bots and picking up certain keywords.

Guess we should be regging the hell out of those.

Link please?

Same here. Whoops guess that was a single sentence answer too.

All I've ever tried to do in this thread was give this person the benefit of the doubt. My quotes have been taken out of context and misread, but we'll see if the biggest instigators are big enough to cough up their wrong conclusions.


Link

Did he say every penny? Or are you over reaching again? Seems you automatically know he's pocketing the rest. Another "jump" to conclusion? My god.. it never ends. I'm done with this thread.

 

[Gerry]

In my opinion, the only link relevant to this thread.

http://www.namepros.com/1897145-post54.html

Something I would hope that no one would ever have to deal with...again.

And on this anniversary of Columbine...

 

[companyone]

News Blog

April 20, 2007 8:04 AM PDT

VA Tech-related domain names blow in
Posted by Dawn Kawamoto
In the past five days, hundreds of Virginia Tech-related domain names have been registered that appear to be suspect, security experts warn.

And they further note that these potentially malicious sites have been registered at a quicker clip than those for Hurricane Katrina.

In sizing up the Virginia Tech domain names, which deal with the shooting massacre at the sprawling campus, security researcher SANS Institute noted: "Some of them are used for benevolent purposes. However, a good share of them are parked for auction and even used for fraudulent donations."

SANS, with the aid of outside security researchers, culled through approximately 551 Virginia Tech-related domain names and found only two belonging to a charity and 57 deemed as "innocent" sites. The majority of the VA Tech-related sites, 381, were found to be "parked," with another 42 sites up for sale and 35 as having "questionable" status. Six of the sites were characterized as "fraud."

A dark day for the nation is posed to become darker yet for some.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9710857-7.html


Peace,
Dan

 

[Raider]

Your digression is lovely but the title of this thread is about this particular domain. You keep wanting to run about every single person that has tried to sell these on ebay for 50k.

So now your Policing the forum?

I believe many people owe this person a public apology.

This is the most absurd statement yet, owe him an apology? give me a break!!! you and others like him have NO clue what your doing to this industry, did you see the Nightline segment last night? no? look it up!

Your outlook on tragic domains and the actions of these tragic seekers is what's driving this industry into the ground! The media is portraying us as desperate low life's, profiteers at the expense of the dead, if were to be respected in the domain industry, actions like these have got to stop, but unfortunately they never will!

I think the owner of this domain is a complete IDIOT! why do I say that? he BLEW a golden opportunity when he went before the media, where was the domain pointing at the time? if that domain was pointing to a Legitimate Memorial fund, it would of dramatically helped the victims families and boosted our image in the process, But NO, instead he parks the domain and it ultimately gets BLOCKED, NICE MOVE! Like the internet is going to take him at his word that the site will be developed, by the time it is, the traffic will be GONE and so will the donation money!

I also read his argument about the servers being overloaded, if he couldn't afford the hosting, he should of contacted the hosting service and explained the situation, I'm sure they would of donated the bandwidth in a heartbeat! If I was in his shoes, I would pay for it out of my own pocket just to get the Donation dollars to VT.

And you want us to apologize to him?......OMG!

:loco:

 

[SuccessClick]

So now your Policing the forum?

This is the most absurd statement yet, owe him an apology? give me a break!!! you and others like him have NO clue what your doing to this industry, did you see the Nightline segment last night? no? look it up!

Your outlook on tragic domains and the actions of these tragic seekers is what's driving this industry into the ground! The media is portraying us as desperate low life's, profiteers at the expense of the dead, if were to be respected in the domain industry, actions like these have got to stop, but unfortunately they never will!

I think the owner of this domain is a complete IDIOT! why do I say that? he BLEW a golden opportunity when he went before the media, where was the domain pointing at the time? if that domain was pointing to a Legitimate Memorial fund, it would of dramatically helped the victims families and boosted our image in the process, But NO, instead he parks the domain and it ultimately gets BLOCKED, NICE MOVE! Like the internet is going to take him at his word that the site will be developed, by the time it is, the traffic will be GONE and so will the donation money!

I also read his argument about the servers being overloaded, if he couldn't afford the hosting, he should of contacted the hosting service and explained the situation, I'm sure they would of donated the bandwidth in a heartbeat! If I was in his shoes, I would pay for it out of my own pocket just to get the Donation dollars to VT.

And you want us to apologize to him?......OMG!

:loco:

Raider Girl's comments are SO RIGHT ON it blows my mind that certain hard-hearted people don't see it her way. And my way. And Doc's and other's. My intention with starting this thread was to POINT OUT the DAMAGE that this guy, who isn't some "beginner" domainer, has done to the DOMAIN INDUSTRY IMAGE and us domainers as a whole.

His totally weak explanation "oh I'm paying for a server and a nice website memorial to the victims". WHAT WILL THAT DO? It will allow him to take the money he makes, with no oversight to his "charitable" expenditures, and spend it however he wants after all this negative media exposure dies down.

There is ONLY ONE PROPER THING TO DO WITH THIS DOMAIN:

Point it at: http://www.vt.edu/tragedy/memorial_fund.php

No excuses, no "sideways" explanations trying desperately to make yourself look good -- just point it to the school's victim fund. PERIOD.

What I predicted at the beginning of my thread has come true -- Domainers get a black eye because of bottom-feeding domainers picking the pockets of the victim's families of tragedies.

 

[Duckinla]

So who is worse;

A) the guy who registered Ismailax.com or
B) The guys who registered Ishmailax.com, Ismaelax.com, etc, etc.

I had to check because I just knew they would be there. Pretty funny to have typos of a parked page. Guess no one will come asking for them.

 

[Theo]

You forgot ismailaxe.com and the various blogs e.g. ismailax.blogspot.com & ismailax.wordpress.com

 

[Duckinla]

Like I said before, I wish I had registered this domain. Not for the traffic it gets today, but because a new term has been entered into our vocabulary.

 

[SuccessClick]

If you think your domains will be easily sold to end users, which we all know are business owners of all types, buying tragedy-based domains is not going to help our image any. And when the business community respects the domain industry and our "right to own and sell" domaines, then the value of ALL OUR DOMAINS goes up. Period.

However, who thinks the domain industry has move forward in a positive light by this "vulture-profiteering" (how's that for a new term?). The very thing we warned against is NOW a symbol of disgust and outrage in the media: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/VATech/story?id=3060386

I'm sure these types of stories and blog articles will be all over the place. It will take time for us to recover. I think a "domainer trust fund" should be put in place and all domainers paypal $5 each to the fund, and then give it to the VT Fund in the name of the Domain Industry.

 

[Fearless]

I registered as many VT names as .mobi names I've registered.

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

Gross domain name.

 

[companyone]

Hi,

TexasGamer over at NP decided to do the "right thing" with the domain: ismailax .com

After consulting friends, family, and co-workers, and after reading countless blogs and forum posts, I have decided to make a change. The domain ismailax .com will be pointed to the official Virginia Tech website memorial fund page:
http://www.vt.edu/tragedy/memorial_fund.php
The word ismailax is bad. It is dark, ugly and forboding. I do not relish being remembered or associated with this evil name but unfortunately, I have become part of the bigger story. I wish I wasn't. But maybe I can help by shining a small beacon of light and hope upon this tragic event. By forwarding this domain, to a good and decent cause, I will have stood up and done my part for a better world. This is how I would rather be remembered. Please forgive me if I have offended anyone. I wish no harm, only peace and dignity to the victims and their families.
Please allow 24-48 hours as the DNS server need time to resolve to the Virginia Tech site

Peace,
Dan

 

[Fearless]

Name servers still parking page name servers. It won't resolve differently unless they are changed.