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  • Russian company buys ebola.com for $200,000

    Remember Jon Schultz, owner of ebola.com? Well, he hawked it, to a Russian company interested in pot. The Verge:

    After buying Ebola.com for $13,500 in 2008, Schultz’s Blue String Ventures just flipped the domain for $200,000. According to this SEC filing, the buyer is a Russian company called Weed Growth Fund, which is paying $50,000 in cash and handing over 19,192 shares it holds in another pot-focused company, Cannabis Sativa. Those are valued at around $164,000. Based in Nevada, Cannabis Sativa is led by two-term New Mexico governor Gary Johnson and aims to grow its business by marketing marijuana products for recreational and medical use as legalization becomes more common around the world.

  • Ebola.com for sale

    Jon Schultz, president of Blue String Ventures, is apparently the worst kind of domain squatter. His company wants $150,000 for the ebola.com domain name. Schultz, in an email to CNBC:

    Ebola.com would be a great domain for a pharmaceutical company working on a vaccine or cure, a company selling pandemic or disaster-preparedness supplies, or a medical company wishing to provide information and advertise services

    The same company’s been capitalizing on people’s fears with other crisis related domain names. It’s unclear if these people sleep well at night.

  • Ebola 101

    Sure, Vox is trying to get pageviews on American fear of ebola, originating from rumors of patients within US borders, but their coverage is a pretty good overview if you’re not familiar with the disease.