Charities Ask That You Remember Your Domain Names In Your Will

from the givetilithurts.org dept

Thu, Mar 30th 2006 11:34am — Carlo Longino

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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DittoBox, 30 Mar 2006 @ 12:16pm

Charity Extortion
Extortion, because it's for a good cause!
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ZOMG CENSORED, 30 Mar 2006 @ 12:51pm

Charity Starts At 127.0.0.1
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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Anonymous Coward, 30 Mar 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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- M Gaudio, 30 Mar 2006 @ 3:45pm
  
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  never thought of that.
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discojohnson, 30 Mar 2006 @ 12:54pm

www.googel.com
guess now google can finally buy googel.com and set up the redirect back to the correct site
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- Josh, 30 Mar 2006 @ 1:09pm
  
  Re: www.googel.com
  It's already been done.
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United Way Employee, 30 Mar 2006 @ 3:00pm

I hope not!
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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Anonymous Coward, 30 Mar 2006 @ 3:15pm

sucks
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DukeUniv.BlueDevil, 30 Mar 2006 @ 7:03pm

...just as I now plan to leave "DukeUniversityBasketball.Net" to my alma mater. :)
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J Brett, 30 Mar 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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