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A Las Vegas company, Blue String Ventures Inc, is looking to sell the domain name Ebola.com for $150,000, in a bid to gain from the current outbreak of the virus, a partner with the firm said on Tuesday according to Reuters.
Chris Hood, a junior partner with Blue String Ventures Inc, the firm selling the rights to Ebola.com, said it owns other domain names for deadly diseases, such as Birdflu.com and Chikungunya.com.
Ebola has grabbed the media spotlight for weeks now, amid growing fears about its spread outside West Africa, and that makes Ebola.com especially hot Internet property.
Hood acknowledged that Blue String Ventures has been criticized for looking to profit off Ebola.com since the Ebola virus has killed at least 4,447 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, since the current outbreak began in March.
"It's not like we're preventing people from getting information. We're not causing people to get the disease, we're not preventing them from getting a cure," he said.
Blue String Ventures bought Ebola.com in 2008 for $13,500, Hood said. With Ebola so much in the news, it was senior partner Jon Schultz who set the value of the domain name at $150,000, he said.
#Ebola #BlueString #Reuters
Chris Hood, a junior partner with Blue String Ventures Inc, the firm selling the rights to Ebola.com, said it owns other domain names for deadly diseases, such as Birdflu.com and Chikungunya.com.
Ebola has grabbed the media spotlight for weeks now, amid growing fears about its spread outside West Africa, and that makes Ebola.com especially hot Internet property.
Hood acknowledged that Blue String Ventures has been criticized for looking to profit off Ebola.com since the Ebola virus has killed at least 4,447 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, since the current outbreak began in March.
"It's not like we're preventing people from getting information. We're not causing people to get the disease, we're not preventing them from getting a cure," he said.
Blue String Ventures bought Ebola.com in 2008 for $13,500, Hood said. With Ebola so much in the news, it was senior partner Jon Schultz who set the value of the domain name at $150,000, he said.
#Ebola #BlueString #Reuters
