Singer’s death prompts speculators to register Whitney Houston related domain names.
Speculators have registered a flurry of domain names related to Whitney Houston since the singer’s death yesterday.
According to domain registrar GoDaddy, 325 Whitney Houston related domain names were registered in fewer than 24 hours after her death.
You’ll find a lot of Houston domain names on eBay. And most of them are worthless.
You can pick up WhitneyHoustonDiedAt48.COM for $500.
Looking for something even more speculative than a domain to take advantage of her death? Try WhitneyHoustonHeartAttack.com for $21 million. My guess on this one is the seller just wants attention to the site they link to in their eBay listing.
For a starting bid of 99 cents you can have a shot at what the seller describes as an “Authentic Whitney Houston Domain”. What’s an authentic domain? I don’t know, but the seller is trying to offload Whitney-Houston-Legacy.com.
A search for “Whitney Houston Domain” returns 41 hits on eBay right now.
Gnanes says
Guy posted a Whitney Houston domain on DNF and asked for an appraisal. His excuse was that he was going to create a tribute site. If it’s a tribute site then why ask for an appraisal? Idiots
Josh says
This is the new way to measure fame. How many domains are registered after your death within 24 hrs.
Have we stats on this?
Dave says
New article tilte
Hundreds of Scumbags register Whitney Houston domains after death.
John Berryhill says
And People magazine will sell a lot of issues, Entertainment Tonight will get a bump in the ratings, and so on. It’s pretty dimwitted for folks to think they are going to make any sort of profit on a one-week news story with these domains, and there is kind of an odd fan mentality among some registrants. But, on the other hand, I’d like to see the official list of people for whom it is okay to make money from tragic events and those who are not. What do you have to do to get into that club?
Najiko says
This is blasphemy. Trying to get rich on somebody’s tragedy should be a punished crime. These people are a shame to domaining community.
Najiko says
whitneyhoustontribute – .com, .net, .org, .info taken. All are registered through GoDaddy except .info which has been nought through eNom.
.com is listed as a premium name for $25k
I’m wondering how many of them are fans of Whitney Houston?
Adam Dicker says
@Gnanes
His domain was WhitneyHoustonRIP.com.
The thread was closed and deleted, we will not ever allow poeople to benefit from a tragedy by selling celebrity domains after their death. Plain and simple it is classless.
John Berryhill says
Sony Music has come under fire after it increased the price of a Whitney Houston album on Apple’s iTunes Store hours after the singer was found dead.
The music giant is understood to have lifted the wholesale price of Houston’s greatest hits album, The Ultimate Collection, at about 4am California time on Sunday. This meant that the iTunes retail price of the album automatically increased from £4.99 to £7.99.
duke says
Sony Music had to raise the price. This is one of the ways they make up for the pirating that costs them $500 million every year, or whatever.
Josh says
@John
” I’d like to see the official list of people for whom it is okay to make money from tragic events and those who are not. ”
According to the US gov, them, not you, or anyone else who’s stuff they want or want cheaper. Heck they’re even willing to cause the tragedy.