Tuvalu capital suffers from water shortage

finster · 09-30-2011, 11:20 AM

Tuvalu capital suffers from water shortage
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=63433
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/dot-tv/732565-tuvalu-capital-suffers-from-water-shortage.html

Quote:

Posted at 07:15 on 29 September, 2011 UTC

International aid efforts are helping Tuvalu with a critical water shortage, with an emergency now declared in Funafuti.

The International Federation of the Red Cross regional office is assisting the Tuvalu Red Cross to deal with low fresh water levels on Nukulaelae, south of Funafuti.

A joint assessment mission was sent to Nukulaelae last week, where the team also delivered 11,000 litres of water to its more than 300 residents that should last for about two weeks.

The IFRC Disaster Management co-ordinator, Ysabeau Rycx, says the water shortage has also hit the capital island.

“They have declared a state of emergency for the next 14 days because there is a low level of water on Funafuti island as well.”

Is there any interest in putting a fund together to help out the Tuvaluans?

finster · 10-04-2011, 12:53 PM

i have to say i'm disappointed in the users here. i'd hope there'd be at least *some* interest in helping out if not just for the sake of helping some impoverished people in dire straits then at least in consideration of our own self-interest. here's an opportunity to generate a lot of goodwill in tuvalu and it looks like we collectively just dont care.

if this is how it is i cant say i wish anyone very much luck in their .tv moneymaking schemes.

***twomoon*** · 10-04-2011, 02:20 PM

It's a good idea to help Tuvalu if you can. It's a good gesture to give a $1000 to Tuvalu gov.

It's all good if you can do it. But what about if you can't? What about if you're earning $30 a day in your daily job? What about if you have some personal problems that are more bigger than anything else? In this situation I don't feel that I can (wish) give something to anything.

If I can do something, I will do it (in silence). I will do it without blaming otheres, that they don't do it.

Sorry for my not perfect English.

markhers · 10-04-2011, 02:24 PM

i will kick in $50. hopefully they get some of the money from all the possibly worthless .tv domains i have been registering lately, lol. where do i sign???

tj1897 · 10-04-2011, 06:05 PM

For those of us with more domains than liquidity heres an idea:

We donate a .tv domain for auction with proceeds going towards water relief.

We could transfer to you and you could slice and dice ‘lots’ comprising x number of names balanced with good and not so good names (as you see fit) - and then you can auction the lots off as packages here or on any other venue you like?

garptrader · 10-04-2011, 07:04 PM

The Australian Red Cross which assists the island has a website where donations can be made directly. On the upper right hand corner is a donate now button (donations in Australian dollars).

http://www.redcross.org.au/tuvalu.aspx

finster · 10-05-2011, 11:41 AM

nice to see some people step up. i know we're all busy and we all have our own troubles. but we are all here to make money speculating in .tv names so it behooves us to do whatever we can. naturally some can do more than others but i'm sure that everyone can help a little - even if its just 5 bucks. i hope every one who sees this can spread the word a little.

thanks for posting the aussie red cross link, garptrader. i just sent an email to the tuvulan red cross and am waiting to hear back.

unfortunately tuvalu is in a precarious situation and this event will likely not be the last time they will need a tremendous amount of help just to stay alive. and because of global warming it may happen that within a just generation or 2 the islands will have to be entirely evacuated.

nicedomains · 10-05-2011, 12:59 PM

I think this is a great idea and would kick in a domain or two for the cause. I would also volunteer to help organize such an event and get the auction out to the public via my blog, social networks.. Anyone else here willing to put names into an auction like TJ suggested for this cause?

Originally Posted by tj1897

For those of us with more domains than liquidity heres an idea:
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=732565

We donate a .tv domain for auction with proceeds going towards water relief.

We could transfer to you and you could slice and dice ‘lots’ comprising x number of names balanced with good and not so good names (as you see fit) - and then you can auction the lots off as packages here or on any other venue you like?

garptrader · 10-05-2011, 02:07 PM

OK-renewal date in October, buyer responsible for any renewal which is only regular; transfer within same registrar only; auction starts @ $10 w/ $1 increments; auction ends Friday Oct 7 1PM Eastern; net proceeds will be donated to Australian Red Cross for disaster relief

MoneyLaundering.tv (ENOM)
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nicedomains · 10-05-2011, 03:27 PM

I was thinking more along the lines of an organized auction in the near future that we get some exposure to. I believe there are enough domainers on this forum and others that care enough to donate a name. If we do it right I think we can raise a little chunk of change and find some donators as well.. ie.. maybe the folks at watch.tv (verisign) would match what we can raise.

tj1897 · 10-05-2011, 04:30 PM

was thinking along nicedomains lines...depending on quality there could be a dottv PR opp here too with you big boys schmoozing verisign.

the dot stop · 10-05-2011, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by finster

Tuvalu capital suffers from water shortage
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=63433

Is there any interest in putting a fund together to help out the Tuvaluans?

Great Idea Fin, Im in.

Originally Posted by tj1897

For those of us with more domains than liquidity heres an idea:

We donate a .tv domain for auction with proceeds going towards water relief.

We could transfer to you and you could slice and dice ‘lots’ comprising x number of names balanced with good and not so good names (as you see fit) - and then you can auction the lots off as packages here or on any other venue you like?

Originally Posted by nicedomains

I was thinking more along the lines of an organized auction in the near future that we get some exposure to. I believe there are enough domainers on this forum and others that care enough to donate a name. If we do it right I think we can raise a little chunk of change and find some donators as well.. ie.. maybe the folks at watch.tv (verisign) would match what we can raise.

An auction of Dot TV domains with all the benefits going towards the people of Tuvalu is a great idea and I would do whatever I could do to help out. I would be happy to donate a domain or 2 to an auction that is honestly making some hard pressed peoples lives, just a little better.

It would help out a bunch of helpless people.
It would be a great domainer story about us finally doing a great and charitable thing as opposed to most domainer cybersquatting types of stories.
It would be some well needed and great publicity for our .tv investments.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=732565

Git er done and keep me posted.

defaultuser · 10-05-2011, 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by finster

if this is how it is i cant say i wish anyone very much luck in their .tv moneymaking schemes.

Using your logic I'm sure glad that I don't have any .GR/.ES/.IE/.PT domains. I'd have to donate a lot of money to show good will bailing them out, too..
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=732565

Not to mention the number of starving in .IN/.CO.IN and .SO (not that anyone has those).

Perhaps we should all try and save Europe to make sure that our .EU investments are safe...

Determine your own level of interest in supporting the island of .TV - but please don't judge others(me) or we'll have to start calculating how many children we could have saved with the $1M USD you have tied up in "worthless" domain .TV domain names.

It's about Individualism.

I'll donate a .TV name if there ever is an auction - probably one of those ones that gets bids in the upper single digits.

menzl · 10-06-2011, 09:27 AM

"i have to say i'm disappointed in the users here. i'd hope there'd be at least *some* interest in helping out if not just for the sake of helping some impoverished people in dire straits then at least in consideration of our own self-interest. here's an opportunity to generate a lot of goodwill in tuvalu and it looks like we collectively just dont care.

if this is how it is i cant say i wish anyone very much luck in their .tv moneymaking schemes."

This reminds me of all the FB comments that end with something like: If you believe in this then you will prove it by liking and re-posting on your profile. It's guilt based and total BS imo.

There is already an unlimited number of opportunities to help people. As someone I consider a friend told me "Few people have deep enough pockets to finance everybody's well being." Pick something or however many you can afford financially and/or time wise.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=732565

As far as "a great domainer story about us finally doing a great and charitable thing as opposed to most domainer cybersquatting types of stories" this "great and charitable thing" would have to be huge. I would really like to see that happen! I would like to see something more than talk and empty feelgood bs.

"Git er done and keep me posted." WTH does that mean?

And I'll donate a name(s) valued similar to what John mentioned. So how is that going to work?

tj1897 · 10-06-2011, 11:04 AM

finster started the thread with "Is there any interest in putting a fund together to help out the Tuvaluans?

There's an idea a fund could take the form of donated names to be auctioned off.

"Git er done and keep me posted." means that there is another person willing to donate

"the git her done" (usa parlance)is an exasperation for "well what do you think - if you like it - run it with already will ya!" its knocking the ball back into the threadowners court in no uncertain way.

Capiche? (dare i say vito italian american parlance)

freedom30 · 10-06-2011, 12:29 PM

...the universe has a way of balancing itself...
(dare I say Polish American parlance...)

garptrader · 10-06-2011, 01:35 PM

Just curious I pay less than $8 for .COM, less than $7 for .Net but $25 annually for .TVs. Does that differential just end up in Demand Media or Verisign's hands with some small portion going to the registrars or does the island benefit in any way from individual .TV registrations? Or do they only benefit from the contract which gives other parties the rights to sell .TV domains?

equity78 · 10-06-2011, 09:51 PM

A joint Anzac operation to get water to Tuvalu is underway, New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

The Polynesian nation of nine atolls north of Fiji, home to 11,000, is suffering from a drought thanks to the La Nina metrological phenomenon that has left the central Pacific dry and relatively cooler.

The New Zealand territory of Tokelau and Kiribati and Samoa are also suffering.

Mr McCully said a Royal Australian Air Force Globemaster C17 will fly to Christchurch on Monday to pick up a large New Zealand Army desalination unit which will be flown to Samoa.

There it will be broken down and loaded aboard New Zealand C130 Hercules aircraft and flown north to Tuvalu's capital atoll, Funafuti.

An RNZAF flight earlier this week flew smaller desalination units directly to Funafuti.

"The advice is that more capacity is needed to relieve the acute water shortage and replenish stocks," he said.

An RNZAF flight will leave Whenuapai this afternoon to deliver an advanced party to Funafuti.

"At present the two operating desalination plants at Funafuti are producing a combined volume of 43,000 litres a day. The minimum requirement for the 5300 residents is 79,500 litres a day," said Mr McCully.

"The large Army desalination equipment can produce a good volume. It will help ease the critical shortage and should provide a sufficient buffer if the dry period continues as expected," he said.

On Wednesday, a C130 flight took water containers to American Samoa to meet met with the US Coastguard buoy tender cutter Walnut.

It is now enroute to the three Tokelau atolls which have neither airports nor harbours.

Tuvalu's Funafuti has long been a poster-atoll for fears of sea level rise, but paradoxically during La Nina events the sea level around the island falls.

Funafuti's sinking and water problems today are a combination of World War II, the Internet and Tuvaluans' anxiety to join the world.

The atolls were happily remote through the first half of the 20th century, until war brought Imperial Japanese forces to Tarawa, now the capital of Kiribati, where they began building an airstrip.

US Marine Corps, ordered to seize Tarawa, secretly set up in Funafuti, 660km to the south, and began work on their own airstrip. They excavated 10 "borrow pits" in the atoll to create the runway. The pits went below sea level, permanently damaging the fresh-water lens and breaching the atoll's thin defences against the Pacific.

Tuvalu made a lot of money in the late 1990s off selling its Dot TV Internet suffix.
Ad Feedback

They used a big chunk of the money on tar-sealing the nearly 20km of roads on Funafuti.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=732565

However, tar-sealed roads and the runway have no proper drainage, and a United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification study found, the total area of vegetation removed during the road construction project amounted to "31.73 per cent of the total land area of Tuvalu".

This has reduced vegetation and severely damaged the fresh water lens as water off the tar sealed roads now runs straight into the sea.

-Fairfax NZ
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-p...hed-for-Tuvalu

tj1897 · 10-06-2011, 11:26 PM

well here's a couple from me :
techblog.tv 2012/05/21
specialists.tv 2012/06/13

bgmv · 10-07-2011, 12:08 AM

I would be willing to contribute TUVALU.us to aid the collaborative effort

finster · 10-07-2011, 02:55 PM

my email to the tuvlun red cross came back as undeliverable.

from reports it sounds like there is relief, so our aid may not be crucial. still it would be a good gesture on the part of the domaining community aas a whole, esp the .tv'ers if we were to put together a contribution.

---------- Post added at 02:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:52 PM ----------
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=732565

Originally Posted by garptrader

Does that differential just end up in Demand Media or Verisign's hands with some small portion going to the registrars or does the island benefit in any way from individual .TV registrations? Or do they only benefit from the contract which gives other parties the rights to sell .TV domains?

As I understand it the nation of Tuvalu receives a minimum quarterly payment of 550k and is entitled to 10% of all revenue over a certain amount - offhand $50MM is the number that comes to mind. I dont belive they have ever rcvd anything more than the min.

garptrader · 10-07-2011, 03:54 PM

Tuvalu population is about 10500; if .TV ever gains a wider acceptance they are sitting on a gold mine...

From Wikipedia...
Drinking water is mostly obtained from rainwater collected on roofs and stored in tanks; these systems are often poorly maintained...Tuvalu has...heavy rain from November to March...

eyedomainous · 10-07-2011, 08:32 PM

Where is VeriSign on this?

I began a petition to get VeriSign to earmark $3 from every .TV domain sold in the next year towards water conservation efforts in Tuvalu.

If we all signed and posted the petition widget on our websites, then engaged our social networks and the media... we can present a solution where everybody wins, including the extension.

Here is the petition... at Change.org

the dot stop · 10-07-2011, 10:47 PM

I like the auction idea a little better.
Everyone could give what they can afford to give rather than being forced to pay so much...imo

equity78 · 10-07-2011, 11:02 PM

Hello Claude nice to see you around. Signed and Tweeted.

10-04-2011, 12:53 PM	THREAD STARTER #2 (permalink)
finster Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,630	i have to say i'm disappointed in the users here. i'd hope there'd be at least some interest in helping out if not just for the sake of helping some impoverished people in dire straits then at least in consideration of our own self-interest. here's an opportunity to generate a lot of goodwill in tuvalu and it looks like we collectively just dont care. if this is how it is i cant say i wish anyone very much luck in their .tv moneymaking schemes. __________________ ...believe me when I say life and death are always on the line...

10-04-2011, 02:20 PM	#3 (permalink)
*twomoon* Lead farmer Join Date: May 2008 Location: Voodoo.TV Posts: 3,942 Follow @Voodoo_TV	It's a good idea to help Tuvalu if you can. It's a good gesture to give a $1000 to Tuvalu gov. It's all good if you can do it. But what about if you can't? What about if you're earning $30 a day in your daily job? What about if you have some personal problems that are more bigger than anything else? In this situation I don't feel that I can (wish) give something to anything. If I can do something, I will do it (in silence). I will do it without blaming otheres, that they don't do it. Sorry for my not perfect English. __________________ my .tv domains - voodoo.tv / twomoon.com - my other domains FlyingDutchman.com - the legend of the Flying Dutchman

10-04-2011, 02:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
markhers NamePros Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Taos, NM Posts: 163	i will kick in $50. hopefully they get some of the money from all the possibly worthless .tv domains i have been registering lately, lol. where do i sign??? __________________ dots.us

10-04-2011, 07:04 PM	#6 (permalink)
garptrader NamePros Regular Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 857	The Australian Red Cross which assists the island has a website where donations can be made directly. On the upper right hand corner is a donate now button (donations in Australian dollars). http://www.redcross.org.au/tuvalu.aspx __________________ http://www.genericdomains.net/ http://www.dominericos.com/ http://www.premiumdomains.tv/

10-05-2011, 11:41 AM	THREAD STARTER #7 (permalink)
finster Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,630	nice to see some people step up. i know we're all busy and we all have our own troubles. but we are all here to make money speculating in .tv names so it behooves us to do whatever we can. naturally some can do more than others but i'm sure that everyone can help a little - even if its just 5 bucks. i hope every one who sees this can spread the word a little. thanks for posting the aussie red cross link, garptrader. i just sent an email to the tuvulan red cross and am waiting to hear back. unfortunately tuvalu is in a precarious situation and this event will likely not be the last time they will need a tremendous amount of help just to stay alive. and because of global warming it may happen that within a just generation or 2 the islands will have to be entirely evacuated. __________________ ...believe me when I say life and death are always on the line...

10-04-2011, 06:05 PM	#5 (permalink)
tj1897 NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: British Columbia Canada Posts: 346	For those of us with more domains than liquidity heres an idea: We donate a .tv domain for auction with proceeds going towards water relief. We could transfer to you and you could slice and dice ‘lots’ comprising x number of names balanced with good and not so good names (as you see fit) - and then you can auction the lots off as packages here or on any other venue you like?

10-05-2011, 02:07 PM	#9 (permalink)
garptrader NamePros Regular Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 857	OK-renewal date in October, buyer responsible for any renewal which is only regular; transfer within same registrar only; auction starts @ $10 w/ $1 increments; auction ends Friday Oct 7 1PM Eastern; net proceeds will be donated to Australian Red Cross for disaster relief MoneyLaundering.tv (ENOM) PremiumDomainNames.tv (Name.com) __________________ http://www.genericdomains.net/ http://www.dominericos.com/ http://www.premiumdomains.tv/

10-05-2011, 03:27 PM	#10 (permalink)
nicedomains NamePros Expert Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Colorado Posts: 5,208 Follow @NameTalent	I was thinking more along the lines of an organized auction in the near future that we get some exposure to. I believe there are enough domainers on this forum and others that care enough to donate a name. If we do it right I think we can raise a little chunk of change and find some donators as well.. ie.. maybe the folks at watch.tv (verisign) would match what we can raise.

10-05-2011, 04:30 PM	#11 (permalink)
tj1897 NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: British Columbia Canada Posts: 346	was thinking along nicedomains lines...depending on quality there could be a dottv PR opp here too with you big boys schmoozing verisign.

10-06-2011, 09:27 AM	#14 (permalink)
menzl NamePros Regular Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Oregon Posts: 349	"i have to say i'm disappointed in the users here. i'd hope there'd be at least some interest in helping out if not just for the sake of helping some impoverished people in dire straits then at least in consideration of our own self-interest. here's an opportunity to generate a lot of goodwill in tuvalu and it looks like we collectively just dont care. if this is how it is i cant say i wish anyone very much luck in their .tv moneymaking schemes." This reminds me of all the FB comments that end with something like: If you believe in this then you will prove it by liking and re-posting on your profile. It's guilt based and total BS imo. There is already an unlimited number of opportunities to help people. As someone I consider a friend told me "Few people have deep enough pockets to finance everybody's well being." Pick something or however many you can afford financially and/or time wise. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=732565 As far as "a great domainer story about us finally doing a great and charitable thing as opposed to most domainer cybersquatting types of stories" this "great and charitable thing" would have to be huge. I would really like to see that happen! I would like to see something more than talk and empty feelgood bs. "Git er done and keep me posted." WTH does that mean? And I'll donate a name(s) valued similar to what John mentioned. So how is that going to work?

10-06-2011, 11:04 AM	#15 (permalink)
tj1897 NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: British Columbia Canada Posts: 346	finster started the thread with "Is there any interest in putting a fund together to help out the Tuvaluans? There's an idea a fund could take the form of donated names to be auctioned off. "Git er done and keep me posted." means that there is another person willing to donate "the git her done" (usa parlance)is an exasperation for "well what do you think - if you like it - run it with already will ya!" its knocking the ball back into the threadowners court in no uncertain way. Capiche? (dare i say vito italian american parlance)

10-06-2011, 12:29 PM	#16 (permalink)
freedom30 Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Windy City Posts: 2,437	...the universe has a way of balancing itself... (dare I say Polish American parlance...) __________________ .TV - go ahead...turn it on! DomainSales.TV

10-06-2011, 01:35 PM	#17 (permalink)
garptrader NamePros Regular Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 857	Just curious I pay less than $8 for .COM, less than $7 for .Net but $25 annually for .TVs. Does that differential just end up in Demand Media or Verisign's hands with some small portion going to the registrars or does the island benefit in any way from individual .TV registrations? Or do they only benefit from the contract which gives other parties the rights to sell .TV domains? __________________ http://www.genericdomains.net/ http://www.dominericos.com/ http://www.premiumdomains.tv/

10-06-2011, 09:51 PM	#18 (permalink)
equity78 NamePros Expert Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 7,639	A joint Anzac operation to get water to Tuvalu is underway, New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully says. The Polynesian nation of nine atolls north of Fiji, home to 11,000, is suffering from a drought thanks to the La Nina metrological phenomenon that has left the central Pacific dry and relatively cooler. The New Zealand territory of Tokelau and Kiribati and Samoa are also suffering. Mr McCully said a Royal Australian Air Force Globemaster C17 will fly to Christchurch on Monday to pick up a large New Zealand Army desalination unit which will be flown to Samoa. There it will be broken down and loaded aboard New Zealand C130 Hercules aircraft and flown north to Tuvalu's capital atoll, Funafuti. An RNZAF flight earlier this week flew smaller desalination units directly to Funafuti. "The advice is that more capacity is needed to relieve the acute water shortage and replenish stocks," he said. An RNZAF flight will leave Whenuapai this afternoon to deliver an advanced party to Funafuti. "At present the two operating desalination plants at Funafuti are producing a combined volume of 43,000 litres a day. The minimum requirement for the 5300 residents is 79,500 litres a day," said Mr McCully. "The large Army desalination equipment can produce a good volume. It will help ease the critical shortage and should provide a sufficient buffer if the dry period continues as expected," he said. On Wednesday, a C130 flight took water containers to American Samoa to meet met with the US Coastguard buoy tender cutter Walnut. It is now enroute to the three Tokelau atolls which have neither airports nor harbours. Tuvalu's Funafuti has long been a poster-atoll for fears of sea level rise, but paradoxically during La Nina events the sea level around the island falls. Funafuti's sinking and water problems today are a combination of World War II, the Internet and Tuvaluans' anxiety to join the world. The atolls were happily remote through the first half of the 20th century, until war brought Imperial Japanese forces to Tarawa, now the capital of Kiribati, where they began building an airstrip. US Marine Corps, ordered to seize Tarawa, secretly set up in Funafuti, 660km to the south, and began work on their own airstrip. They excavated 10 "borrow pits" in the atoll to create the runway. The pits went below sea level, permanently damaging the fresh-water lens and breaching the atoll's thin defences against the Pacific. Tuvalu made a lot of money in the late 1990s off selling its Dot TV Internet suffix. Ad Feedback They used a big chunk of the money on tar-sealing the nearly 20km of roads on Funafuti. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=732565 However, tar-sealed roads and the runway have no proper drainage, and a United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification study found, the total area of vegetation removed during the road construction project amounted to "31.73 per cent of the total land area of Tuvalu". This has reduced vegetation and severely damaged the fresh water lens as water off the tar sealed roads now runs straight into the sea. -Fairfax NZ http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-p...hed-for-Tuvalu __________________ Host your website with name.com and get up to $10.99 off any domain registration First Quarter 2012 5 letter.com sales report

10-06-2011, 11:26 PM	#19 (permalink)
tj1897 NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: British Columbia Canada Posts: 346	well here's a couple from me : techblog.tv 2012/05/21 specialists.tv 2012/06/13

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10-07-2011, 03:54 PM	#22 (permalink)
garptrader NamePros Regular Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 857	Tuvalu population is about 10500; if .TV ever gains a wider acceptance they are sitting on a gold mine... From Wikipedia... Drinking water is mostly obtained from rainwater collected on roofs and stored in tanks; these systems are often poorly maintained...Tuvalu has...heavy rain from November to March... __________________ http://www.genericdomains.net/ http://www.dominericos.com/ http://www.premiumdomains.tv/

10-07-2011, 08:32 PM	#23 (permalink)
eyedomainous NamePros Regular Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 965	VeriSign Help Tuvalu Petition Where is VeriSign on this? I began a petition to get VeriSign to earmark $3 from every .TV domain sold in the next year towards water conservation efforts in Tuvalu. If we all signed and posted the petition widget on our websites, then engaged our social networks and the media... we can present a solution where everybody wins, including the extension. Here is the petition... at Change.org

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