Domainers Giving Back: DDC Puts Red Cross Text Contribution Links On Its Landers
2010 January 14
Domain Development Corp (DDC) one of the sponsors of our blog and a company we use to park most of our adult domains, announced today that they placed a link on the bottom of all the domains they owned for the Red Cross Haitian relief fund.
The Red Cross runs the program which makes it easy for anyone inside the US to donate $10 to help the Haiti victims by texting the word “haiti” to 90999.
We have already instructed DDC to place this message on all the domains we have parked with DDC and we encourage all other domainers and parking companies to do the same.
If you want to see what this message looks like check out: Cheaploans.com (not our domain)
If you are interested in learning more about joining this program here is a link.
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I put the same banner on all domain properties. I modified the banner to be vertical and 150 pixels wide to fit the side bar. Go to my blog at uplain dot com and feel free to copy (save) the image and save it to your /wp-content/uploads folder. Select the TEXT widget in your widget section and drag it to your sidebar. Put in that TEXT widget…
put in that TEXT widget: img src=”/wp-content/uploads/arc.gif” (enclose it with )
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It’s just a message to text to make a donation.
It does not click through to the Red Cross, but instead launches an unrelated, paid pop-up when clicked…..which somehow seems wrong to me.
My banner and DDC’s is not clickable. Not sure where you’re getting the popups…
DDC has pop-ups on some of its mainstream domains, these have nothing to do with the Red Cross message.
The banner is not designed to be clicked on.
You text the number in the ad and contribute the $10, its not that hard of a concept
I just changed my profile pic on facebook to the Red Cross banner.It would be neat if everyone did that.
Why do domainers need to capitalize on tragedies?
Are we going to see the same domainer “cons” we experienced with Katrina?
It was mentioned elsewhere that someone registered 90999.org yesterday. It is pointed towards a Fab. ppc site with a ‘for sale’ banner.
Since it has Fab. privacy, I don’t know if it is owned by a domainer or blue Sea (I doubt it).
Won’t it been better that it was repointed towards one of the relief organizations?
Or, maybe a blog with a number of charities listed?
Maybe, someone will take the suggestion above and register Haiti90999.com (and .org) and put it to good use?
UPDATE
As of January 16th $8 million dollars has been raised through this texting program, nationwide.
Keep it going