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Yesterday I created a contest based on the picture above, with the creator of the best caption receiving a $10 Starbucks gift card. Instead of selecting the winner on my own, I chose the top 5 for you guys to vote on today. Winner will be the caption with the most votes in the comment section. If I don’t blog next week, send out a search party (and start with Lonnie first).
Top 5 captions:
1) “Dell Laptop: $1800
Wifi Card: $149
Unlimited data plan: $49/month
Finding an outlet when your battery dies in the middle of an auction: Priceless”
2) “Can you paint a little faster? This laptop’s getting heavy.”
3) “Dear, I said leave the laptop at the hotel.”
“Look. This ride has an outlet. I can check my auction now.”
4) “Who says I have a problem–I can stop domaining anytime I want to!”
5) “There comes a time in every man’s life when he must stand up and tell his mother that he is an adult. This usually happens at around the age of 40 and in Lonnie’s case, by email.”

The person who comes up with the best caption for this photograph (as chosen by me) wins a $10 Starbucks gift card. For those who don’t know, this dedicated domainer is none other than Lonnie Borck, who was featured here a few months ago.

It’s been a while since the last post like this, but back by special request is another edition of Register Domains for Charity. Below are a few unregistered domain names I believe have good potential. Although I am not charging anything for researching these names, I am requesting that the person who registers each makes a donation to a non-profit organization.
ScrapMetalCenter.com
ScrapMetalCenters.com
ScrapMetalCollector.com
ScrapMetalCollectors.com
ConferenceCallingHosts.com
SterlingSilverBars.com
Fromager.org (cheese expert)
PrivateHelicopterFlight.com
PrivateHelicopterFlights.com
You don’t need to tell me how much was donated, but I would love to know which charity was helped, so please drop me a line after!
A few non-profits I recommend (with the link to make a donation):
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
ALS Association
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure for Breast Cancer
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Meir Panim
American Cancer Society
Turning Point (Domestic Violence Organization)
BC Children’s Hospital
Charities Previously Helped By Generous Readers of My Blog:
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
ALS Association
American Cancer Society
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Just received an email from David Castello announcing that CCIN will be partnering with Rob Monster of Monster Venture Partners in the development of Traveler.com. Together, Monster and CCIN will develop Traveler.com into a global travel website.
Monster has recently signed on for joint development projects including HealthCare.com, WiFi.com, and Patents.com. CCIN are leaders in the Geodomain space, operating websites such as PalmSprings.com, LagunaBeach.com, Nashville.com, and many others. They also own non-geo names such as Whisky.com and Daycare.com.
For more information about this deal, check out DNJournal’s Lowdown.

I am once again looking for a city .com domain name for an east coast city (east of the Mississippi). For the right name, my budget is up to $100,000, but it must fit in with my needs. This is the profile of the domain name I am looking to buy:

• City of 100,000 people or more
• .com Only
• City must be on the East Coast of the US (prefer north east)
• City name can not have Saint or Fort in at, as that can be confusing (St vs. Saint)
• Must be the full and real name of the city
• Must have some tourism
• Household income must be at the US national average or above
• Domain name must not have been publicly on the market (domain auction or forum or otherwise)

Please only send names that meet all of my requirements. Any other submissions will be deleted. There’s nothing wrong with other similar types of names, but I don’t want them for this project. My budget is up to $100,000 for a great name, but it obviously depends on the domain name.

I recently noticed the webcam for Lowell.com was no longer functioning. I visited the website of the funeral home that operates the webcam, and I came across a Network Solutions landing page. While I initially thought they must be making some changes to the site, I didn’t contact the funeral home to ask if something was amiss. Needless to say, I always have my pop-up blocker on, so I went back to the business of developing Lowell.com and didn’t really think twice.
Today, while in the process of doing something that required me to disable my pop-up blocker, I noticed their site wasn’t working again. After seeing the Network Solutions landing page (image below), I clicked away and got a pop-under with PPC links on it. While the header of the pop-up says “http://kolmic.com – Mcdonoughfuneralhome.com” the body doesn’t look similar to anything of Network Solutions’.
The domain name registration is current – and in fact registered through August of 2013. Has anyone seen this before? Is Network Solutions adding annoying pop-unders to their parked pages to monetize them even more than going beyond the standard single page PPC links or is something else going on here?