Tucows Donates Domain to Estate of Queen Rocker Freddie Mercury
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Domain registrar gives domain to estate of Freddie Mercury.
Tucows’ Yummy Names has donated the domain name FreddieMercury.com to the estate of the late lead singer of rock group Queen. An announcement on QueenOnline.com reads:
In a recent act of fantastic generosity, domain registrar company Tucows Inc. secured the domain name FreddieMercury.com and donated it free of charge to Freddie’s estate.
We would openly like to thank Bill Sweetman and his team for their gift and allowing us to have the use of the best domain name for Freddie’s musical legacy.
The domain currently points to www.loveroflifesingerofsongs.com, the site set up to celebrate the CD and DVD of the same name released in 2006. At this site you can also ‘Sponsor A Star’ for Freddie and donate to the Mercury Phoenix Trust.
The domain name was previously owned by a Tucows’ customer who let the domain name expire earlier this year.
Further Reading:
But,will Frank give up FreddyMercury.com ?
That is the question!
Oh man…that sucks. I’ve never seen him with a domain like that. It makes me sad to see this.
I had the opportunity to grab Madonna.com, JimmyHendrix.com, MarylynMonroe.com, etc…… Almost all the big names back in 95′ were free to reg. I passed because it was the right thing to do.
Tucows appropriates (read STEALS) expired names that should be dropped to the available pool of names. Any domainer thinking this outfit is anything but a bunch of thieving scumbags is a complete idiot.
And ICANN is a joke for not putting an end to the registrar warehousing (STEALING) of expired names.
On top of being a bunch of lowlife thieving crooks you can add media whores to thier resume as well. Hey sweatman why don’t you give back the thousands of domain names you illicitly grabbed from tucows customers instead of trying to sell them off on yukky names. Oh, by the way can’t wait til someone calls you on your typo and tm infinging domain collection as well. Only a matter of time. Tucowssucks.com Tucowreallysucks.com
loveroflifesingerofsongs.com sounds like a classic example of long tail epic failure.
I had the opportunity to grab Madonna.com, JimmyHendrix.com, MarylynMonroe.com, etc…… Almost all the big names back in 95′ were free to reg. I passed because it was the right thing to do.
Biz rule #1;
Never tell people how stupid you were.
Is it wrong and stupid to be honest at least for your self ?
I think it is funny when people condemn a company for doing what the ENTIRE industry does.
Grats to Tucows for doing this, instead of letting the worms complaining about it who are angry because they wanted to reg it, then sell it, or farm it for SEO.
On a side note to the idiot named Yukky Names, nice attempt to redirect traffic to your pathetic little blog that is being ripped without attribution from sites that are legitimate. Just another attempt by yet another slimy hosting company to generate traffic.