McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson and Johnson subsidiary, announced a major recall of Tylenol products today. According to an article on CNN, Tylenol recalled 21 kid’s and infant’s liquid medicines, which will be pulled from stores and warehouses as a precautionary measure to protect against possible contamination.

Incidentally, J & J owns the domain name TylenolRecall.com. Instead of using the domain name for a website to provide information about the products and brands, serial or lot numbers, and other recall information, the domain name is sitting undeveloped, and it goes to a dead page.  In my opinion, at the very least, the company should forward the domain name to the press release to provide information to worried consumers who type it in to their browsers.

Johnson and Johnson does understand domain names. The company owns gems such as Baby.com, ThePill.com, Cancer.com, and many other consumer-related domain names and websites.

CBS has launched a new interactive Real Estate website in conjunction with LMG Digital Media, a leading boutique web development and social networking company based in New York City. The real estate website they created can be found by visiting CBSREM.com or CBSRealEstateMarket.com.

LMG Digital Media may be familiar to domain investors, as the company’s CEO, Simon Mills, is a regular at domain investment conferences, and Internet entrepreneur/domain investor Gregg McNair serves as a Director. At the moment, Gregg is on a tour in Kenya with a group of domain investors supporting TheWaterSchool.org charity (noted in DNJournal).

Congratulations to the LMG Digital Media team, which also includes family friend, Daniel Modell, VP Creative Director.

This morning’s New York Post reported that the owners of Greenhouse, a beautiful downtown NYC night club, “bought the Internet domain name Provocateurnyc.com.” Provocateur is the name of another nightclub that is expected to open in the Hotel Gansevoort very soon. The Whois registration for ProvocateurNYC.com is private, and the domain name forwards to the Greenhouse website.

The Post should keep in mind that virtually anyone could register a domain name like this and forward it to any other website. Since the registration is private, there isn’t much of a way to know who owns it, unless a court order or UDRP filing requires the domain name registrar to reveal the name of the owner. Hypothetically, a third party could own the domain name and be looking to stir up trouble between night spots.

One thing about this is certain. Although I haven’t been to the Gansevoort rooftop for a drink in a couple of years, it sure sounds like Provocateur is going to be a hot spot in the neighborhood.

By now, many of you have probably seen PeopleOfWalmart.com, a viral website with photographs from interesting folks doing their shopping at Walmart. After being live for a short period of time, a number of news organizations wrote articles about the site, and it took off from there. Millions of visits later, and it was another viral phenomenon.

When I first heard about the site, I didn’t bother to check out the registration date to see just how quickly the word was spreading, and it was something I wished I had done just out of curiosity. This morning, a couple of friends sent me links to a new viral site as well as its sister sites. Some of the links might be inappropriately suggestive for some, although there isn’t any nudity in them:

• HotChicksWithHotDogsInTheirMouths.com
• HotChicksPickingUpDogShit.com
• HotChicksWithDogsWithBoners.com

The links are for websites that have stupid funny sophomoric photos, which is probably why I found them amusing. The domain names were all registered between September 15 and today (September 24th). I don’t know just how viral they’ve gone, but I am sure it’s spreading pretty quickly.

It would be interesting to have followed the route it took to get to me. I bet there are people studying how quickly something on the Internet goes viral. If not, I think it’s something that should be studied by big brands and marketers.

Perhaps this is actually a case study in the making, since the registrant’s email address is associated with Mekanism.com, a NYC and San Francisco-based production company.