Saturday, July 11, 2009
Michael Jackson's death spurs domain-name explosion
The King of Pop also appears to be the king of cyberspace.
Within hours of Michael Jackson's death, a record number of people registered Internet domain names with GoDaddy.com honoring the late pop star.
GoDaddy.com, a Scottsdale-based registrar, tallied 9,803 Jackson-related Web names between 1 p.m. Thursday, the time Jackson was taken to the hospital, and 1 p.m. today.
"The phenomenon was established several years ago - people register Web site address names in relation to big events," said Elizabeth L. Driscoll, a spokeswoman for Go Daddy Group Inc.
The online blitz easily eclipsed a previous record set by Anna Nicole Smith. The day she passed away in 2007, 273 related domain names were registered through Go Daddy, Driscoll said.
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