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The Lowdown
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March 23, 2009 Post
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I
have always been proud of this industry
and appreciative to be in a business that attracts so
many good-hearted people. The vast majority, despite
sometimes mind boggling success, have remained extraordinarily
well grounded. Perhaps that is because so many came
into domaining from humble backgrounds before hitting it
big. Those people haven't forgotten where they came from
and they always seem to be ready to ride to the
rescue when they hear about bad situations where
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I
was reminded of that again over the weekend when I
heard about a group of domainers who have banded
together to try to save an animal rescue facility
in Arizona. With hard economic times in the
general economy, charitable donations have started
drying up and many such facilities have been forced to
shut down. Veteran
domainer Donna Mahony (who was featured in our
February 2005 Cover
Story), lives near (and has frequently
visited) Arizona's Hacienda
de los Milagros (House of Miracles).
She was the first to sound the alarm when she learned
that the rescue facility for burros, horses, llamas and
other animals had only enough money left to feed the
animals for four more days. Late
Friday night she issued a plea on Facebook asking
her friends in the domain business if they could send a
few dollars via PayPal to buy hay for the
animals. Within minutes, Sahar
Sarid, one of the |
Donna
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co-founders of Bido.com,
replied, asking for more information so he could do
something to help. By Saturday morning, Sahar had
decided to hold Bido's first
charity domain auction to raise money for
the Hacienda de los Milagros. Sahar wrote more about the
auction on his
blog Saturday.
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Donors, including
Bido's own Jarred Cohen, immediately
started contributing animal related domain names
for the sale that will be held online at 1PM
(U.S. Eastern Time) on Wednesday, April 1 at
Bido.com.
The entire portfolio of donated domains will be
auctioned off at that time. As of this writing
more than three dozen domains had already been
given, including AnimalRescue.us. |
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Donna
wrote a great
letter about how she first learned
about the Hacienda de los Milagros and why she
went looking for help when she found out how
desperate the situation had gotten there.
She wrote, "Some
people go to church, do yoga or whatever... I go
to the sanctuary. It's a spiritual place for me.
So here I am, folks, begging, simply for
the love of a sanctuary. I am asking for your
help in saving a very special place. Both in the
Bible and history books, burros
have done their share for man, let's try to do a
little something for them."
Donna went on to
talk about the selfless founder of the House
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Hacienda
de los Milagros Founder Wynne Zaugg
sharing some love with one of his beloved
burros. |
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Miracles, Wynne
Zaugg, who walked away from the
corporate world at 49 to care for
animals every one else had given up on.
Recalling her first visit to the
Hacienda Donna wrote that every |
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animal had
a name and Wynne knew them all. "He
would call out the name and that burro
would approach. Now these are not pets
he had since babies. These are wild burros,
collected - not too gently - off their
own land and sent to slaughter... unless
somebody or someplace will take them.
But in Wynne's presence, they are like
the family dog. The mutual love,
affection, and respect between Wynne and
these animals envelops you in its
warmth."
With over
100 animals at the rescue facility the
bill for hay alone runs $500 a day and
the money is dwindling fast. If
you can find it in your heart to help
there are four ways you can do so.
Send
Donna a donation for hay via PayPal
(to [email protected]),
send a donation directly
to the House of Miracles, or if you have an animal related domain
you can donate to the auction, drop
Bido's Jarred Cohen a note about
that. His |
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email is [email protected].
Last but not least, you can log on at
Bido.com April 1 and place your
bid on what may end up being the largest
portfolio of animal related domain names
every offered at one time. The House of
Miracles needs one of their own right
now - let's see if we can make it
happen! |
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(Posted March
23, 2009) |
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