Domainers do good deeds
While you don’t normally hear a whole lot about domainers doing good things with their money, there are actually plenty of stories out there. Now here’s finally one that is documented by this story in the 2theadvocate.com:
A man who made a fortune from Internet domain names has pledged with his wife one of the largest donations ever to LSU [Louisiana State University] – a $25 million gift. [...]
According to a news account, Stephenson told LSU business students in 1999 the biggest decision of his career was to purchase three dozen generic Internet domain names.
Other stories never published include: people that pay the bill for the person behind them at the supermarket, pay for layaways at stores, take an orphanage out to Wal Mart for Christmas shopping and Michael Mann’s grassroots.org.
There are many people feeling a need to share their wealth. If you want to share your story, or someone else’s, please do so in the comments. After all, most of us are so much more fortunate than many others in this world.
[via Seven Mile]
[...] As mentioned before, Domainers do good deeds. Now that the person who pays for the next in line the supermarket has outed himself as Michael Gilmour, Tom came up with the idea to give someone a domain name. The problem remains the infrastructure (how to give the revenue of a name to a homeless person), but the idea is a great start. For domainers looking to give, MicroLoan sites like Kiva are also an opportunity to give back to the (global) community. [...]