Awful topic, I know... kind of like that car crash you can't look away from.

There have been a whole heap of domains registered in the last 24 hours related to the death of Anna Nicole Smith (no, not by me). Now some of these may very well be used to make memorial sites or news sites, but a large portion of the ones that I ran a whois on are pointed to parking services.

http://www.marketingdrome.com/200702...death-domains/

I made a blog post about it and then started to wonder if anyone would actually find this objectionable. Is this wrong or is it just e-capitalism at work? Not just trying to tout my blog here, I'd actually like to get some opinions from the domainers here.

Edit--
Shoot I meant to post this in the Domaining forum. Could a mod move it perhaps?

oh wow, people just feeds off people's deaths, same thing happened when eddie guerrero died, well on irc so many memorial channels were created and some sites

this is sad...i hate when americans do this sort of stuff...i mean comon anna is a person too isnt she???

i think she deserves a bit of respect....yes she did have faults but we are all come with problems.....her death was a tragedy, and love her or hate her she should be given credit for her strengths people shouldnt monetize of such an event.

rip

i think it was pretty smart

I think it is a smart move especially if you can get a decent domain with some keywords that people will likely be searching for.

Its a smart move money-wise I think but I don't think its something I could do. It seems a little wrong to take advantage of someones death.

seems kinda shadey... but we are all marketers chasing the almighty dollar.

having the next big site is about being ahead of the majority. with that said, i'm going to start buying death domains for people still alive.