Another crisis, another surge in domain registrations.
If Verisign still published its monthly lists of top trending keywords (it stopped with August’s list), ‘virus’ would certainly be on the list.
According to Verisign DomainScope, .com and .net domain name registrations including the word ‘virus’ have spiked from single digits per day in December to hundreds per day over the past week. (See graphic above.) And the registrations before the surge were more often related to computer viruses rather than living ones.
Registrations including the word “Covid” have also taken off, to the tune of dozens of registrations per day according to DomainScope.
I doubt many of the domains will ever be put to use and most will expire. While some domains might have been registered by organizations that want to disseminate information about the latest coronavirus, others look like they will be used for nefarious purposes, such as BuyCovid19pill (.) com
Some just registered today. 2020-03-03 13:16:41 10 QUARANTINE.CLUB
I’d hate to be in that club 🙂
I own CoronaBlog.com for many years – it’s a geo blog domain for Corona City.
Everyday I get few inquiries after CoronaVirus scare appeared.
Nice ad, offers, or confused inquiries, yet it will never sell, keep the nonsense flowing
Agree, people are wasting their money with this crap. They’d be better off trying to resell toilet paper right now.
you don’t know what you’re talking about :)))
http://VirusHell.com traffic has increased
“They’d be better off trying to resell toilet paper right now.” You got that right. There has been a group of individuals selling Trump toilet paper, “Grab -em-by-the-you know” what T shirts and other various and sundry prize Trump material around his properties, much to the chagrin of the Trump organization. If one believes the press on this, they have become millionaires in short order with many tourists buying this stuff up as fast as they put it out. I watched one afternoon, and people were laughing hysterically while forking over the cash.Hot seller yesterday?….Trump pencil sharpener where Trump is on all fours where you put your pencil in a certain location to sharpen it.
http://CoronaNames.com