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Domain Sherpa Ups the Fundraising Ante!

DomainSherpa.comYesterday afternoon I wrote about BigJumbo’s special offer to donate $5.00 to my wife’s and my fundraising effort for the Ronald McDonald House for every person to “Like” its Facebook page, up to $500. The starting point was 139 fans, and we’re now at 174 fans.

This was very cool of them to do, and I have even better news to report about this today.

Domain Sherpa has offered to match the funds that BigJumbo donates. If 100 domain investors visit the BigJumbo Facebook page and click the big “Like” button on top, Ronald McDonald House will receive $1,000 in total from these two companies. It’s a pretty awesome gesture on the part of Domain Sherpa, and it’s greatly appreciated by me and the Ronald McDonald House.

The great news is that Karen and I reached our $5,000 fundraising goal. This $5,000 number was arbitrary, and every dollar will be beneficial to the Ronald McDonald House.

BigJumbo Facebook Challenge to Raise $500 for Ronald McDonald House

As you are well aware, I’ve been raising money for the Ronald McDonald House, and things have been going well so far (thank you for that!) I was speaking with Andrew Allemann about ways to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House, and he and his team at BigJumbo came up with a special offer that won’t cost you anything but will help RMH.

For every additional person that becomes a Facebook fan of BigJumbo from now until Sunday, the company will donate $5.00 to my fundraising effort for the Ronald McDonald House, up to $500 in total. It’s really simple to become a Facebook fan of the company, and by doing it, you’re helping RMH.

At the moment, BigJumbo has 139 Facebook fans, so if we can get that number to 239 (or higher) by Sunday, Ronald McDonald House will receive $500.  Can you help out and become a fan of BigJumbo by clicking the big “Like” button?

Saving Photos from Facebook

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Facebook.Up until recently, you could hold down your mouse on a Facebook photo and drag it to your desktop to save it. This would allow you to print photos or use them for other things, such as backgrounds, images for websites…etc.

Today when I was trying to download a photo from Facebook, I was unable to drag it to my desktop or use the copy and paste functionality. It seems that Facebook has changed the way it displays photos, making it a bit more difficult to save photos from Facebook.

When you’ve clicked on the photo and it’s enlarged on your screen on a black background, scroll down and look to the left. There’s an option to “Download Photo.” When you click on that link, it will open the photo in another window, where you can grab it to save or do whatever you’d like with it.

This is not all that complicated, but it took me a few minutes to figure out, so hopefully it will save you some time.

Rick Latona: “We’ve been working on a secret project”

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Haven’t heard much from Rick Latona or anyone from his company recently, but it looks like that was quite intentional. This morning I received an email announcing that his company is brokering OE.com. According to Rick, the purchase price is $225,000 but offers will be considered.

More importantly is that he revealed that his company is currently (and has been) operating in stealth mode for the last few months, hence the radio silence on Latonas.com. In today’s email, Rick explained his public absence in this way:

Now let’s talk about what my company has been working on. Oh wait, I can’t do that. Our domain business is actually in stealth mode right now. We’ve been working on a secret project that is quietly taking off. 2011 is going to be a banner year for my company. I wish I could tell you all about it but I can’t. I will say only one thing. If you operate a parking company and we haven’t talked about business in the past 2 week, please contact me.

What I can tell you is that auctioning domains, tradeshows, etc are the least of our priorities. You won’t be hearing much from us for some time but we will still be bringing occasional premium domains to the market like oe.com.”

I’ve also been wondering what Rick’s been up to, and I figured he was re-grouping and working on something big. He previously hinted at something, and I have a guess about what it is, but I will keep it private.

I am glad to hear Rick’s business is adapting and maturing, and I think that his news will be interesting to domain investors once it’s released.

DomainRoundtable.com Now Live With Special Offer

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Domain Roundtable is coming back!  The conference, which was on a hiatus in 2010, will be held March 1-4, 2011 at the Atlantis Resort in  Nassau, Bahamas. Domain Roundtable is put on by Thought Convergence, the company that owns and operates Aftermarket.com, DomainTools, and Trafficz, among other leading domain companies.

The new DomainRoundtable.com website just went live after some aesthetic work, and organizers are now offering complementary Tuesday Excursions for the  first 100 people who register to attend. Popular excursions include behind the scenes tours, snorkeling, rum and cigar tasting, deep sea fishing, and more.

The early bird registration rate is an affordable $695, which will slowly increase to $995 as it gets closer to the conference.

As with most domain conferences, a live domain auction will be held on site, and they are now accepting domain submissions on the DRT website.

Funny Christmas Story

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I am spending some time away with family, and it always seems that when a piece of domain name news makes it to mainstream media outlets, I am always asked, “did you hear about…

This morning at breakfast was no different. I was asked if I heard about Bank of America defensively registering domain names with the CEO’s name. For instance, BOA registered BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianMoynihanBlows.com and many others. Of course the humor is that my friend Andrew’s article on Domain Name Wire was the impetus for the mainstream news, and it was funny to hear the store referenced by non-industry people.

It reminded me of the time one of my best friends emailed me an article written on CNET about the Sex.com foreclosure auction. Ironically and unbeknownst to him when he forward it to me, the article’s source was an article I wrote!