3 hours to build Web site to sell bin Laden sells T shirt mad

What is your first reaction when I hear news of al-Qa'eda leader Osama bin Laden being killed? Morris Harare, a 23-year-old New York University business school student, opts for something that may be completely different from yours Road: He first registered his domain name, and then spent three hours setting up a new website selling T-shirts bearing the "Usama dead" logo and a turnover of $ 120,000 in a day.

3 hours Create new website Sell T-shirt

Morris hurried back to his apartment in Brooklyn, New York on the same day. More than an hour ago, U.S. President Barack Obama announced to the world in the East Hall of the White House that Al Qaeda leader Al-Qaeda bin Laden was killed in the Pakistani military. .

With the help of an Indian friend, Morris just launched osamadeadtees.com, a newly created website that lasted for 3 hours, selling a variety of different styles but all printed with the words "Osama dead The "words or designs of T-shirts, each priced at 12 US dollars. On the homepage, he wrote: "Please buy a 'Usama dead' T-shirt! You can express how proud you are as Americans by supporting our cause!"

The results prove that his creative fantastic. When interviewed by the American political magazine Slate on May 3, he has sold at least 10,000 T-shirts and has just hired a fourth part-time employee.

Morris described her aspirations with "Santa Claus coming in May." He disclosed that after paying T-shirt production costs, Google ads and miscellaneous fees, each T-shirt can earn at least $ 1. However, some U.S. media also reported that although this site is doomed to be short-lived, Morris can earn at least 60,000 to 90,000 U.S. dollars.

However, after Maurice sold T-shirt there was a dramatic change. The savvy college student, widely reported by U.S. media after the incident, has decided to return the T-shirt order and return the buyer's payment because after some "soul pondering" he said he was unethical in making money through bin Laden's death .

Bin Laden's domain name was crazy cybersquatting

In fact, the Americans who want to make money through bin Laden's death are by no means Morris. His website "Osama dead T-shirt" is only about 2,000 of the new domain names appearing on the Internet related to the death of bin Laden One. According to the statistics of the U.S. media, the vast majority of the new domain names currently containing the words Usama, bin Laden, the dead or the dead were established within a few hours after the broadcast of bin Laden's death was broadcast.

Traders, domain name speculators and advertisers are scrambling to register the most direct and easily remembered URLs related to the death of bin Laden. Of these varied web sites, the short ones like osamarip.com, lengthy ones like "osama bin laden waskilledonmayfirsttwothousandeleven.com" were killed on May 1, 2011, Easily there is "Sayādaw!" (Adiososama.com, adios is the meaning of Spanish goodbye), serious such as osamaconspiracy.com.

"Bin Laden movie" domain name for sale

In the United States, a domain name can be registered for one year at a cost of $ 7, and one year later, applicants often give up domain names whose earnings can not be offset against registration costs. Jacob Leuturbs, a California-based consultant, registered the domain name binladenfilm.com 10 minutes after seeing the breaking news about bin Laden's death, the same meaning Another domain, binladenmovie.com, was registered a few years ago.

Jacobs said he was surprised to find binladenfilm.com not yet registered because he thought the domain name could have high business value. After a successful cybersquatting, he used wordpress software to simply populate the site's content, specifically indicating that the domain name for sale.

Although no buyer has contacted him so far, Jacob is not worried at all. He plans to take the initiative to contact Hollywood studios, "When the future people want to make movies for bin Laden, the domain name will be very precious."