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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
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Domainers
Set for 2nd Assault on Kilimanjaro + Aftermarket.com
Releases Sampling of Domains in Roundtable Auction
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After
conquering
Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro last
year in a fundraising climb
for The Water
School, a team of domain industry
pros is getting set to do it again March 23
through April 2.
This
Climb
for Clean Water is a fundraising
effort that was pioneered by domain industry
leaders including Gregg McNair and Richard
Lau. The first climb raised almost $200,000
for The Water School program that provides
simple, safe, strategic and sustainable clean
water solutions to the developing world. Every
year, according to Save the Children,
approximately 3.5 million people die
from inadequate access to safe drinking water
and poor hygiene – 1.5 million of these
deaths are children. These alarming facts
are what inspired the creation of Water
School.
The
success of the 2010 climb led the
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Mount
Kilimanjaro
Tanzania, Africa |
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organization
to adopt the Climb for Clean Water as its
single major annual fundraising event. You can
support the effort in one of two ways - the most
adventurous being to join
the climb team yourself!
The cost of the trip is $2,950 per
climber. This includes: all airport transfers, 2
night stay at a 4-star hotel in Nairobi,
a Water School project visit
(transportation and lunch), one-way airfare from
Nairobi to Moshi Kilimanjaro National Park,
fees, professional guides, porters and cooks,
tents, all meals while on the mountain, 2
night stay at the Sal
Salinero Hotel in Moshi
(before and after climb) and more.
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Jessica
Besseling will be among those
climbing Mount Kilimanjaro next month |
If you
can't make the climb, the other way to
help is to sponsor
one of the climbers like Jessica
Besseling, the Director of
Business Development at Domain
Development Corp
(sponsorship links will go up soon at
the climb's official website - WaterClimb.com,
or you can donate
at any time at the Water
School website). Jessica had the winning
entry in a contest held at this month's DOMAINfest
Global conference in Santa
Monica, California, that gave her a $5,000
Water Climb trip subsidy, plus a
$5,000 donation made in her name to
the Water School.
Jessica
fully intends to earn more money for the
Water School by climbing the famous
19,340-foot mountain. She said, "This
is the first time in my life that I
truly feel that I can make a
difference with my determination and
efforts in the world. I hope that
everybody that I know will donate at
least a little bit, or a lot?, which
would mean the world to me and give me
more strength to actually reach the
top for these |
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kids! I
have never been so convinced and have
never asked anybody for any donations,
so I am hoping that we together can
truly make a difference and raise a lot
of money. Be assured that every penny
that you donate is going directly to
the Water School, as I know the
people personally."
With
the climb now less than four weeks away
we will have more developments on this
event for you in the days ahead as the
start date draws closer. |
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One
other note today - Aftermarket.com
has
released a sampling of
domain names that will be up for
bid in their live auction at the
Domain
Roundtable
conference in the Bahamas
one week from today. We also
obtained the reserve ranges (in
U.S. $) for the the selected
domains. Those are: |
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Beverage.com
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Celibacy.com
/ Celibate.com
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Ceremony.com
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Coed.com
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CornealDisease.com
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Cuffs.com
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DressClothes.com
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Energize.com
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Goliath.com
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Grams.com
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iSign.com
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OnlineBilling.com
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Viewed.com
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50,001
- 100,000
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10,001
- 25,000
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50,001
– 100,000
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25,001
- 50,000
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No
Reserve
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5,001-10,000
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5,001
– 10,000
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5,001
– 10,000
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10,001
- 25,000
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5,001
- 10,000
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1,000
- 2,500
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10,001
- 25,000
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2,501
– 5,000
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Aftermarket.com's
Carron Brown said the auction will have a
final catalog of over 50 names with no or low
reserves, with release of the full list coming
soon. Auction pre-bidding begins Monday
(February 28). If you do not already have one,
you can open
an Aftermarket.com account here. |
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(Posted Feb.
24, 2011)
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