Charities Ask That You Remember Your Domain Names In Your Will
from the givetilithurts.org dept
An article in the IHT says that domain names are the hot new charitable gift, with people holding valuable ones using them to raise money for their favorite causes -- and take the nice tax write-off, too. It cites farm.com, which was donated to a group that then sold it for $200,000 as well as a guy that runs a domain-name speculator giving away things like "bestliberalartsschool.com" to his alma mater. What's next, the United Way taking over googel.com and criagslist.org and starting a typosquatting drive?
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Charity Extortion by DittoBox on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 12:16pm
Extortion, because it's for a good cause!
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Charity Starts At 127.0.0.1 by ZOMG CENSORED on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 12:51pm
It's true that Domain Names can be used as gifts, I've done this myself. I also currently run a free art class online with the goal being to provide college level education for free. I see this as something positive...
I guess it's true, Charity starts at 127.0.0.1
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by Anonymous Coward on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 12:53pm
whatever happened to "when you expire, so will your domain name soon after"
I can just see it now - domain name look-ups will now have a spot listed for "date of owner's death".
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www.googel.com by discojohnson on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 12:54pm
guess now google can finally buy googel.com and set up the redirect back to the correct site
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Re: www.googel.com by Josh on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 1:09pm
It's already been done.
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I hope not! by United Way Employee on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 3:00pm
I work for a United Way office. It would be rather odd to see any United Way offices (which are not franchises - they're all run by local volunteers within their own counties, independently, in case you didn't already know). If one or two jumps on this bandwagon, just be sure to understand that it's not the organization as a whole doing it - just those particular UW offices.
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by Anonymous Coward on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 3:15pm
sucks
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Re: by M Gaudio on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 3:45pm
never thought of that.
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by DukeUniv.BlueDevil on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 7:03pm
...just as I now plan to leave "DukeUniversityBasketball.Net" to my alma mater. :)
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by J Brett on Mar 30th, 2006 @ 8:04pm
I don't think anyone would be upset if "criagslist.org" as you typed it, went away (considering its full of pop ups and who knows what else)...but a craigslist.org...well that there would be grounds for "sum fighten"!
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