Non-Domain Related

Despite the uncertain economic and health conditions around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, John Berryhill and I are happy to announce that our domain industry sponsored 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge jersey has raised $10,000 for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The jersey above, created by the XYZ Registry design team, will be the jersey that John and I wear as we train for the re-imagined Pan-Mass Challenge ride in August.

While there will not be the large group ride this year due, John and I will each be riding our own 2 day 160+ mile bike rides in our custom jerseys. The jerseys will be sent off to the printer on Tuesday morning, and we should have them to wear by early June.

John and I appreciate all of the support we have received from our friends and colleagues so far, and we want to give a special thank you to our jersey sponsors:

• .XYZ Registry (Lead Sponsor)
• Uni Naming & Registry (Key Sponsor)
• Premium Traffic Ltd. (Gregg McNair)
• Brannan’s (David Clements)
• Telepathy (Nat Cohen)
• The.Buzz (Bill Doshier)
• CoolJobs.com (Peter Askew)
• Evolve.com (Andy Booth)
• Turn Commerce (Jeff and Andrew Reberry)
• Lumis (Hobi Michalec)
• Evergreen.com (Adam Strong and Jen Sale)
• Java Media (Lee Hale)
• Saw.com
• Sedo
• Digimedia (Scott Day and Jay Chapman)
• Domaining.com

I am happy to announce that design #2 prevailed after a weekend of voting. John Berryhill and I will be proud to wear this special domain industry sponsored Pan-Mass Challenge jersey as we ride around locally this Spring, Summer, and Fall.

One of the neat elements that the XYZ Registry design team integrated into the jersey is a special way for us to honor friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have cancer or who bravely fought cancer. If you would like to honor someone special to you, I invite you to share that person’s two initials (like MG or RP) in the comment section, and if you donate $20 to either John’s PMC fundraiser or my PMC fundraiser, we will add the initials to our jersey (as space allows). I plan to submit the final design to the printer on Monday, May 18th. Anyone who already contributed is certainly welcome to participate.

In addition to honoring or memorializing someone,

John Berryhill and I signed up to ride in the 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Each year, John and I wear a special domain industry-sponsored cycling jersey during our training rides and as we cross the finish line. This year, we will not be able to cross a finish line because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are continuing to train and will be wearing our special cycling jerseys and shorts while we are out on the road in the Spring, Summer, and Fall.

The XYZ Registry is the lead sponsor this year, and their design team created three AWESOME jersey design options, which you can see above. John and I are asking friends and colleagues to vote for their favorite design, and that is the design we will wear for the next several months and beyond:

One cool aspect you will notice is that each jersey has a special design element to honor or memorialize someone who is fighting cancer or who bravely fought cancer. Jerseys 1 and 3 have first names, and jersey 2 has initials. John and I would be happy to add names or initials to honor your friends and family if you would like. We will do our best to add as many as possible as the jersey allows. Once the jersey is selected, I will share the winning design and invite people to submit names or initials.

So far, our jersey has raised $6,250 for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and its Jimmy fund! As you can see, there is room on the back of the jersey for more logos!

As of the time of publication, John and I have 7 logo sponsorships available on the back of the jersey for a $500 donation/each. We hope to raise $10,000 in donations to Dana-Farber this year as a result of the jersey fundraising. Please reach out to me via email to confirm availability. We plan to have the jersey finalized next Wednesday. Voting is open until Monday, May 11, 2020 at around 9am Eastern.

Here is a list of our generous domain industry jersey sponsors for 2020:

• .XYZ Registry (Lead Sponsor)
• Uni Naming & Registry (Key Sponsor)
• Premium Traffic Ltd. (Gregg McNair)
• Brannan’s (David Clements)
• Telepathy (Nat Cohen)
• The.Buzz
• CoolJobs.com (Peter Askew)
• Evolve.com (Andy Booth)
• Turn Commerce (Jeff and Andrew Reberry)
• Lumis (Hobi Michalec)

Once again this year, John Berryhill and I are registered to ride in the 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money and awareness for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dana-Farber is one of the leading cancer organizations in the world, and we are happy to support their mission of providing exceptional cancer treatment and completing advanced cancer research. Since the start of the Pan-Mass Challenge ride in 1980, the PMC has raised $717 million in funding for Dana-Farber and its Jimmy Fund.

Obviously, the circumstances of the ride are tentative due to the uncertainty of whether it will be possible this year to assemble the rolling army of nearly 7,000 PMC riders expected.

There are thousands of people from throughout the world who invest in domain names. The majority of these people consider their domain investments to be a hobby rather than a full time profession. Domain investors work in various fields and professions, and there are many investors who are helping others as the coronavirus outbreak expands.

Among the domain investors ranks, I know there are doctors, nurses, fire fighters, police officers, members of the armed services, paramedics, scientists, farmers, grocery store employees, drivers, sanitation employees, janitors, hospital administrators, and many other professions who are on the front lines helping people heal or helping people survive.

To those who are helping others – Thank You. Your efforts are appreciated. If there is something I can do to help you or your family, please let me know. Stay healthy and be well.

Thank You!

A GoFundMe campaign has been established to assist Donna Mahony with upcoming medical and travel expenses associated with the treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension. Donna is a long time domain industry leader who is most known for creating and operating Domain Boardroom. The campaign has a fundraising goal of $7,500, and about $2,000 has been raised so far.

Joe Styler tweeted out a link to the Go Fund Me campaign this afternoon:

If anyone is interested in helping someone who has done a lot to help the domain industry please donate at the gofundme https://t.co/zO4f4VlZ1g

— Joe Styler (@jjstyler) March 2, 2020