Opportunist during the Tough Philippines Weather Crisis – Typhoon Ondoy / Undoy / Ketsana and Typhoon Pepeng / Parma

in Domain Names Tech News by Francis Simisim — October 2, 2009 at 5:00 PM | 4 comments

domainer taking advantage of redcross website Opportunist during the Tough Philippines Weather Crisis Typhoon Ondoy / Undoy / Ketsana and Typhoon Pepeng / Parma Although Philippines was badly hit by typhoon Ondoy / Undoy, one of the best thing I’ve seen is that we, Filipinos, are uniting as one. From giving aid to our fellow filipinos, donations, giving relief goods, Filipinos have really stepped up and help our own people whether rich or poor. What really annoys me are the few that are taking advantage of this situation online…

…Offline, I’ve heard people stealing people’s things from their flooded homes after they were evacuated. I wouldn’t know much on the offline ways of taking advantage of those in the affected areas, but I do know some that are online that takes advantage of this situation. I was looking for the red cross’s website when I stumbled upon a website that took advantage of this. I typed redcross.com.ph thinking that it would redirect me or get me to redcross’s website but it took me elsewhere.

screenshot redcross being taken advantage of Opportunist during the Tough Philippines Weather Crisis Typhoon Ondoy / Undoy / Ketsana and Typhoon Pepeng / Parma – The page you’re redirected to, if you visit redcross.COM.PH –

It took me to a parked page which was being monetized by the owner’s name Soon-Ock Song in Korea. As a domainer, there are certain do’s and dont’s, some crossing people’s morality and principles. He’s violated a trademark issue, which red cross should really go after him and he’s violated every Filipino who needs support and help from those people who are likely to donate to redcross online.

redcrossCOMPH taken advantage Opportunist during the Tough Philippines Weather Crisis Typhoon Ondoy / Undoy / Ketsana and Typhoon Pepeng / Parma

– dotPH’s Who Is information –

If Soon-Ock Song is reading this, please redirect your domain name (redcross.COM.PH) to the proper Redcross website (redcross.org.ph). Typhoon Pepeng is coming along and more Filipinos are going to need more help, so please help out people in need.

The real RedCross URL is: http://www.RedCross.org.ph

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http://philippineweb.org dell iggs

@Francis,
We would like to answer your call on an emergency social networking site. One of our members at PhilippineWeb,org is making his domain name – Alert.PH – available for such use. We also thank you for bringing out the misuse of some important domains especially during these times especially when these domains are just parked. Hence, for lack of content, we are just redirecting the domain ALERT.PH to PAGASA (we hope they do not mind). We noticed though that just entering pagasa.dost.gov.ph leads you to an error page (server not found message). They could have redirect it to the proper http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph
We are also inviting volunteers/partners to develop the Alert.PH site with us as we see the benefits of such site.
We are open for ideas.
Your friends at PhilippineWeb.org
http://www.gangventures.com Francis Simisim

@Dell: Thank you so much PhilippineWeb.org for the support on this. This misuse would really enrage a lot who are in need of aid from people’s donations. I just hope he would be more careful in domain names next time. I hope alert.ph could become the main source of alerts on calamities for the Philippines.
dell iggs

@francis, we are open to make Alert.PH a community site. As a domainer, I do understand the power of this name and it should belong to the community.
http://www.gangventures.com Francis Simisim

@Dell: Let me know on what you plan to do with alert.ph, I’d like to help out