An entrepreneur in Las Vegas paid for Ebola.com domain in 2008 and is now selling it for $150,000. Jon Schultz, who monitors a number of ‘disease domains’ from his home in Las Vegas, bought the domain and now reselling it.

The businessman also owns birdflu.com and H1N1.com, as well a domain for the deadly mosquito-borne disease Chikungunya and another for the Ebola-like Marburg virus. He paid $13,500 for his Ebola domain four years ago and has been waiting for the moment to sell.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Mr Schultz said he felt that a six figure sum was more than reasonable for Ebola.com.

‘According to our site meter, we’re already doing 5,000 page views per day just by people typing in Ebola.com to see what’s there.

‘We’re getting inquiries every day about the sale of it. I have a lot of experience in this sort of domain business, and my sense is that $150,000 is reasonable.

Mr Schultz, who also owns terror.com, PotassiumIodide.com and fukushima.com, appeared untroubled about the issue of making money from a human tragedy.

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