Well its been over a month since the what looks like what will go down as the worst ecological disaster in US History (so far) started.
I thought it would be interesting to see who owns some of the most relevant domain names.
You might be surprised that some of the most relevant domains we’re registered long ago.
OilSpill.com was registered in 1998 and is currently owned by Frank Donato Co which sells products to clean up the mess. The traffic has increased somewhat in the last 30 days according to Alexa its now in the top 1M of site where the 90 average is 2M.
OilSpills.com was 1st registered in 2000 and is owned by Oversee.net but is not resolving. The Alexa rank on this domain has gone from a 3 month average of 20M to a one month average of 10M.
OilSpillCleanUp.com was 1st registered in 1999 and is owned by Elastec.com which sells products to clean up the mess.
OilCleanup.com is a domain we own & was first registered in 2001, according to Alexa, traffic on that domain has increased going from a 3 month average of 20M to 10M this month
CONTAINMENTBOOMS.COM is owned by Frank Schilling and was first registered in 2005.
OILSKIMMERS.COM was first registered in 1995 and is owned by a company that sells that equipment.
TopKill.com was registered in 2005 and goes to a parked page.
OilSpillEquipment.com was registered in 2005 and belongs to a cleanup company.
TheOilSpill.com was registered in 2009 and goes to a parked page.
OILSPILLCONTAINMENT.COM was 1st registered in 2005 and is owned by the legendary domainer Garry Chernoff
Here are some recently registered relevant domains all of us missed:
CleantheOil.com May 13th and CleanTheOilSpill.com were registered on May 13th by a guy named Darwin Burke,
CleanUpTheOilSpill.com was registered yesterday May 26th
CapTheWell.com registered on April 29th.
CleanTheGulf.com May 3rd.
BPOilSpill.com April 27th
GulfOilSpill.com April 28th
PlugtheHole.com May 27th
PlugtheWell.com May 25th
OilSpillLawyers.com April 29th
OilSpillLitigation.com April 30th
CleanUpTheOil.com May 5th.
OilSpillNews.com May 1.
OilDispersants.com May 15th
MassiveOilSpill.com May 5th
GulfOfMexicoOilSpill.com was registered on April 28th and seems to be owned by a law firm.
FireBooms.com I registered this one today, while I was writing this story.
I picked up OilSpillRemoval.com last week. Its obviously not as good as oilspillcleanup but the gov’t classifies oil spill cleanup companies as Oil Spill Removal Organizations(OSRO).
Funny you didn’t mention that OilCleanup.Com that you own was parked.
You missed out mine, picked up on the drop last year:
http://OilHole.com
I have an oil spill mini site with Adsense on it.
Fishy
I say we own that domain in the post.
Of course its parked
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the “top kill” method has failed, try a BETTER option now:
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why dont you monetize oilcleanup .com? Thats one of the worst pages ive seen.
Funny thing……..
The DAY I was writing about the FACT that there are still type-in domains for registration fee and PIGEON SHIT and the naysayers of course don’t believe it……..I registered a couple of those domains above. They started getting traffic immediately. One I registered LAST NIGHT already has traffic. This may not be the best example as it may be time sensitive, but right now……….Out of 16 domains I registered on April 29, 11 already are making $$$ and the others are just a bit premature. So for the know nothimgs…..you still know nothing!
bpspill.com 255 visitors $12.55 earnings
oilspillingulf.com 132 visitors $11.80 earnings
gulfspill.com 165 and $14.95
bpoilspill.org 76 and $1.17
gulfoilleak.com 70 and $2.08
bpspill.com 244 and $12.55
bpspill.org 17 and .48
bpoilslick.com 1035 and $14.39
gulfcoastoilcleanup.com 15 and $3.99
gulfoilcleanup.com 40 and $6.33
gulfoilleak.com 72 and 2.08
bplivefeed.com 64 and .09 in first 36 hours
So the next time some MORON says there are no more type in domains, tell them the same thing I did in 1999. Tell them they are wrong.
ok-let me see if I understand how all this works, something happens in the mews, and you domainers come along and use the incident to dream up some acronym to match the event, then you float the name and you get money for nuthin?
Do I have that correctly?
Nuthin? Just nuthin, theres nuthin there at all? Just you with your hand out right?
@Rick Schwartz
Your domain name landing page is nice, very relevant to your domain.
Care to share, who is the parking compnay?
Cheers,
EM @ KING.NET
Rick,
Impressive numbers.
Forgetting OilPollution.com owned by Frank Schilling.
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all oil spill related domains (unfortunately) have a great future, since, the increase of off shore oil drills, should increase the risk of accidents… 🙁
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Dtagr
I don’t think OilPolluton.com is a particular good domain for this situation.
The domain also has no Alexa ranking, before or after the spill.
@Stewart – welcome to the free market that has made America the richest, most powerful country in the world, my boy. Enjoy it while it lasts…
PS – I just sold DrillWells.com. 🙂
Logan…….Stewart is a domainer-hating trademark lawyer.
If you follow his/her posts over time there are almost always the same.
Stewart – you my friend just don’t get it.
To say we do nothing is a gross misunderstanding. We are first movers and we risk our capital. If you see the oil spill news and go out and short BP’s stock and then it plummits and you make a profit, then you also did “NOTHING” and made a profit.
Please tell me the difference?
I’ve had an interest in the industry for a decade or more due to an old college friend who studied geology and eventually started his own oil exploration firm.
Cranky/Webwork
I just looked at a few of my oil domains that are “old” domains.
I don’t see any change over the past 2 months.
However, considering they are with Parked,
I shouldn’t expect any add’l record hits or revenue.
The ppc companies are taking all of us to the cleaners.
I don’t see the benefit of owning any domain with the BP oil disaster. When the disaster is over. People will move on. I assume energy domains would be much better. It proves three is an immediate need to reform energy.
CPC is no longer a good source of income. Only the companies benefit.. We have to look down another avenue.
Jason
“”I don’t see the benefit of owning any domain with the BP oil disaster. When the disaster is over. People will move on.””
Seriously?
Anytime damage is measured in billions of dollars there is a LOT of business to come from this nightmare.
They are still cleaning up Alaska 20 years after the Exxon spill.
There will be lawsuits, health risks, beach cleanup.
Its going to be a huge business for years to come for a lot of people
To put this in perspective.
Lawyers make the most out of these disasters…100s of millions at the least going on for tens of years at the very least
Domainers? Domainers make dog shit & breadcrumbs & brag about their (comparative) pocket change as if it’s all the money in the world.
Now – “where are the domainers’ yachts”?
(a play on a famous book on Wall Street)
Aggro
I know plenty of domainers who have or could have Yachts if they wanted them.
As a former attorney there are tons of lawyers who would trade jobs with some domainers, there aren’t a ton of lawyer Yachts hanging around either
I hope no one will propose the .spill TLD …
andrew-I think I do get it, it seems to me that despite ‘the risk ‘ you speak of you are opportunists creating then manipulating a system to copyright ficticious names and hold them in reserve till somje one comes along who really invests time and energy actually producing goods and services, you on the other hand lo0ck up intellectual concepts in diorect conflict with the free market if not the 1st amendment itself?
And you do this to leverage ill gotten gains, I really think I have it correctly and that makes you uncomfortable.
Stewart,
As I was reading your response, european diamond brokers came to mind.
I don’t agree that domainers should profit from actual TMs like BP.
But, terms like ‘oil spill’ ‘oil cleanup’ are generic and fair game.
I think it is ironic that a lawyer is calling domainers opportunist.
You guys wrote the book on profiting from a crisis.
I recently registered http://www.OilSpills.TV and have added a small site to it. It contains news and video content, along with the Live Cam from BP.
We shall see how it performs.
Mike
Hence the term “ambulance chasers….
Me thinks that some pot is calling the kettle black…
@ Rick Schwartz – Congratulations! You did well with your hand regs. It seems the market for hand regs is open particularly with regard to IDNs and ccTLDs, besides some dot coms and dot nets.
@ Stewart, I see you are wearing a cowboy hat. You should thank the prescience of US domainers to snap up domains, because China would own us by now, as they own homes, monuments, and skyscrapers when there’s a dip in the market. At least domains are staying, for the most part, where the internet was invented – the US!
Please vote on my no salt project, linked to, above.
have a few of those oil spill domains
ACEITE-DE-ABOGADO-DERRAME.COM
ACEITEDERECLAMODERRAME.COM
BP-CLAIM.COM
BP-OIL-CLAIM.COM
BP-OIL-CLAIMS.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-ACTION.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-CLAIM.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-CLASSACTION.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-COMPENSATION.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-INFORMATION.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER-FLORIDA.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER-LOUISIANA.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER-MISSISSIPPI.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER-TEXAS.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-PAYMENT.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-SETTLEMENT.COM
BP-SPILL-CLAIMS.COM
BP-SPILL-INFORMATION.COM
CLASSACTION-BP.COM
DERRAMESDEPETROLEO.COM
FLORIDA-BP-LAWSUIT.COM
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY.COM
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY.NET
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY.ORG
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-CLAIM.COM
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-CLASSACTION.COM
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-CLASSACTION.ORG
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-COMPENSATION.COM
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-LAWSUIT.COM
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-LAWSUIT.ORG
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER.COM
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER.NET
FLORIDA-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER.ORG
GULF-COAST-OIL.COM
GULF-OIL-CLASSACTION.COM
GULF-OIL-SPILL-INFO.COM
GULFCOAST-CLASSACTION.COM
LOUISIAN-OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY.COM
LOUISIAN-OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY.ORG
LOUISIANA-BP-CLASSACTION.COM
LOUISIANA-OIL-SPILL-CLAIM.COM
LOUISIANA-OIL-SPILL-CLASSACTION.COM
MEXICO-OIL-SPILL.COM
OIL-ADVICE.COM
OIL-SPILL-ADVICE.COM
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-ALABAMA.COM
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-FLORIDA.COM
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-LOUISIANA.COM
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-MISSISSIPPI.COM
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-TEXAS.COM
OIL-SPILL-CENTRAL.COM
OIL-SPILL-CLASSACTION.COM
OIL-SPILL-CLASSACTION.ORG
OIL-SPILL-EXPOSURE-SYMPTOM.COM
OIL-SPILL-EXPOSURE.COM
OIL-SPILL-HELP.COM
OIL-SPILL-HELP.COM
OIL-SPILL-HELP.NET
OIL-SPILL-HELP.ORG
OIL-SPILL-LAWSUIT.COM
OIL-SPILL-SETTLEMENTS.COM
SPILL-ADVICE.COM
SPILL-CENTRAL.COM
SPILLCENTRAL.COM
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY.COM
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY.ORG
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-CLAIM.COM
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-CLASSACTION.COM
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-CLASSACTION.NET
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-CLASSACTION.ORG
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-COMPENSATION.COM
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-LAWSUIT.COM
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-LAWSUIT.ORG
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER.COM
TEXAS-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER.ORG
@JM
Hope your domains pay off. That’s a lot to invest in oil domains. I would rather pick up environmental and energy related domains. You also registered many with a few dashes too.
I’m sensing you’re looking for traffic and to monetize them. Keep us updated with live traffic results and clicks. Good luck.
Thanks Jason
I am looking to do paid directories
Running:
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-ALABAMA.COM
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-FLORIDA.COM
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-LOUISIANA.COM
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-MISSISSIPPI.COM
OIL-SPILL-ATTORNEY-TEXAS.COM
Future:
BP-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER-FLORIDA.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER-LOUISIANA.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER-MISSISSIPPI.COM
BP-OIL-SPILL-LAWYER-TEXAS.COM
Adsense Sites
oil-spill-central.com
OIL-SPILL-HELP.COM
CLASSACTION-BP.COM
BP-CLAIM.COM
I have the feeling that this will be the biggest event in the next 10 year, living on the gulf coast in Florida. This is a hedge against what might happen in the next 10-20 days here and all of us having to move.
Just my 2 cents, but you did hear it here first.
JM
@MHB,
The generic terms will sale, but the ones with BP in them seem to be a tough sale. I think the .org ones will command money because of their nonprofit orientation.
I don’t see the health risks attributed to the spill, well unless greedy lawyers make up some imaginary illness. I would rather register energy and environmental names. I own BelieveInEnergy.com, .net, .org and .info. Obama tends to use the phrase a lot. I also own a few other energy names.
As for the oil spill names, I would gladly take the generic ones. This country can’t seem to figure out how to reform
energy and to improve the environment. Maybe the BP spill will convince the government to take action.
In order to profit all these oil domains, you need a nice park account. Sedo, Go Daddy and Why Park don’t cut it.
The health risks attributed to the water and fish. Crazy how oil continues to spill out everyday. It seems there’s unlimited oil sitting in that oil tanker. BP will sink because of the disaster. What a mess!
I do see an economic downturn in seafood. Many restaurants depend on the Gulf Coast’s seafood supply. I would register domains that confront the types of health risks associated with the oil spill. Those will be big, as people will need to be treated, as well as to research their signs and symptoms.
@JM
looks like you covered every major region in the Gulf Coast. Look into Gulf Port too. I noticed you picked up the state domains. Think of health domains to help those who will be effected. Aldo, look into future policies which will be passed after the fact.
Interesting to see what new domains show up on the board.
@jason
Yeah as I am not to happy with BP right now as my beach is fixing to get black, so my next move is a viral widget that should go all over to promote my domains and get people to the right pages for help. Widget should be ready Tuesday will stop by with a link.
Thanks
JM
JM
No one is happy with BP but right now we need them, or there money to help start to pay for some of the damage caused by this.
If BP feels that the damages are going to exceed their assets they may go the bankruptcy route leaving the government to foot the whole bill.
@mhb
No I agree its not a good place for BP to be in right now but just some numbers that I am using in my widget.
Total claims per day 16.6 million
Total clean up cost per day 21.11 million
BP Income per day 45.4 million (2008 numbers)
so there is still a little room, but if this thing hits Florida they are out of business, and that is the 4th biggest company in the world.
According to this article:
BP Oil Spill Fuels Legal Marketing Machines
some of those domains, cited above, are good candidates to offer oil spill lawyers, as they are snapping up oil spill domains:
“Beasley Allen, based in Montgomery, AL, maintains a simple and intuitive domain name for its oil spill practice: oil-spill.com. The law firm, comprised of 45 lawyers and 200 support staff, has at least two people contributing to the “latest news” section.”
I told you all I would stop by again with my new widget that I hope many websites will put in their sidebar to keep attention on the oil spill damage going on in the gulf.
http://www.oil-spill-central.com/oil-spill-widget
As you can see there is a donation button on there for the National Wild Life Federation as the animals are some of the hardest hit in this mess.
Please share this widget and please donate to the National Wild Life Federation
All the best
JM
We registered OilFunds.com ten years ago. It was definitely more valuable before the BP disaster.