Comments on: Disease associated domain names

By: giovanni

giovanni — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:14:02 +0000

i liked this post cause i just recently
purchased fightdiseases.org and was thinking it
was a waste of dough, now i feel better

By: admin

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:53:27 +0000

Thanks Caroline. Funny you mention Ireland as I am going there this Saturday for 2 weeks.

I think what you have also shown in your comment is that there can be some nice free PR available in “doing the right thing” with such domains.

By: Caroline Greer

Caroline Greer — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:28:35 +0000

You may be interested to hear that dotMobi, the Irish-based Registry for the .mobi TLD, recently awarded the Premium Name autism.mobi to the Autism Research Institute in San Diego.

The ARI has designed a mobile site which includes advice for parents, treatment tips and answers to frequently asked questions around autism. One especially valuable feature is the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist which is designed to evaluate cognitive, communication, sensory and social skills of individuals on the autism spectrum.

Autism.mobi is an excellent example of a site that has been created with the needs of a particular community in mind, taking into consideration the fact that more and more people are going mobile. The site is being promoted across various mediums and the ARI plans to add some additional features over time.

dotMobi was delighted to partner with the ARI and to see the domain name being actively used in such a way.

Caroline Greer
dotMobi

By: admin

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:10:16 +0000

Agree completely with you, Kelly. The only catch may be that the tests are outrunning the treatments and that’s creating dilemmas for patients. Also genetic markers may only give statistical odds of having the disease actually occur during the patient’s lifetime e.g BRCA in breast cancer. Some women have insisted on double mastecomies to prevent the possibility of having breast cancer later in life after a positive BRCA test.
Genetic counseling is critical to help patients make sense of the information being given to them. Another hot area for domaining perhaps.

By: Kelly Lieberman

Kelly Lieberman — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:54:08 +0000

My Sister is a Prenatal Specialist, and Genetic Counselor and works in prenatal genetic diseases and diagnosis.
The field is growing exponentially due to advances in new genome sequencing research. Unfortunately, the field is also growing because of the increasing numbers of genetic diseases in the prenatal population.
Prenatal disease diagnosis while almost unheard of 5-10 years ago is now on the forefront of perinatal medicine. Millions of dollars are being spent on developing prenatal DNA tests to diagnose these disorders as quickly as possible.
I agree that this is a largely untapped domain market with huge upside potential – mainly with the pharmaceutical companies.
Set a Google News Alert for “genetic disease” and see what turns up this month.