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On
August 6 & 7
DomainInvesting.com
Founder Elliot Silver will be
riding
a bike
163 miles over a two-day stretch to help raise funds
for Boston's Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute,
America's #1 ranked pediatric
cancer center. The
ride, from Wellesley,
Massachusetts to Provincetown,
Massachusetts is part of the 2016
Pan-Mass Challenge that
hopes to raise $46 million
for Dana-Farber.
The
money will come from donations
made in the name of each of the approximately
6,000 riders from over 40
states and many foreign
countries. Each rider sets his or
her own goal and maintains their own
fundraising page. Elliot, who will
ride in the Pan-Mass Challenge for
the 3rd time, raised over $8,300
in his 2015 ride. This year he set
his goal at $10,000 back in
February and as of this writing his
page shows him just shy
of the $8,000 mark with two
weeks to go.
On
his page Elliot noted that he and
his wife Karen have been
members of the Friends of
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
since moving to Massachusetts. He
noted, "I think just about
everyone knows someone who is
battling or who has battled cancer.
I have friends and family
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Elliot
Silver
DomainInvesting.com
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Today,
NamesCon
Founder Richard
Lau (a cancer
survivor himself) wrote an article
for DomainInvesting that
included a generous offer
designed to help Elliot reach
his fundraising goal (Richard
also donated $500 to the
effort on behalf of
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The
2017
NamesCon conference
is coming up January 22-25
in Las Vegas and many
in the industry are already
buying their tickets for the
event. By buying them within
the next week, you can get
them for $599 and
support Elliot's effort in a
big way. That is
because Lau made this offer in
his article: "For
each Advance
Savings Ticket
purchased between
now and July 30th,
NamesCon will donate $300
directly to Elliot’s
fundraising efforts
– and we’ll even include
your name in the supporting
message!"
Just
about everyone I know in the
industry will be going to
NamesCon anyhow, so if you
haven't gotten your ticket
yet, this would obviously be a
great time
to do it
so you can simultaneously help
this great cause.
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One
other note today. On
the same weekend
Elliot will be riding
in the Pan Mass
Challenge, I was
planning to be at the 2016
DomainX conference
in New Delhi, India.
Unfortunately, an
unexpected development
has arisen that
will prevent me
from attending.
However I still expect
to be able to provide
our readers with
coverage of the event
with the help of
DomainX organizers and
associates who will be
on site and will share
their photos and first
hand accounts of
conference activity
with us (as they did
with this month's World
Domain Conference
in Wuzhen,
China).
I
will miss seeing the
many friends we made
at last
year's show
(and making new ones)
but am looking forward
to continuing to cover
one of the world's
fastest growing and
most promising domain
communities for many
years to come. |
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