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Originally Posted by Ronald Marva
Sad to say, this practice is getting rampant. Any big news event would easily catapult an otherwise innocent domain name to become a hot commodity. Remember 9/11, tsunami in Asia or Katrina? All these tragedies had prompted buying of related domain names especially as search engines are picking up high volume of keywords searches from the users.
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On the optimistic side, this is one good reason to market products. Say, college jerseys can be customized with Virginia Tech, or the helmets could have Tsunami logo. That is in one way of remembering the tragedies on a good side.