Via The Daily Southerner:
To help the Town of Tarboro grow and prosper, Jason Clark is donating the domain name of “tarboro.com” to the town.
Having owned the domain name for approximately 10 years, Clark, the owner of Parkhill Cinema 3, is ready to donate it to the town for a use that will help to benefit Tarboro.
“There have been several offers over the past few years to acquire the domain name. I was reluctant to sell it because I was not satisfied that it would be used appropriately,” explained Clark.
“(Town Councilman) Steve Hoard was the latest person to contact me about the site and his visions echoed mine. We both want to see Tarboro grow and prosper. I feel that the town needs a portal that will be used to promote Tarboro to the rest of the world. Hopefully, the new site will serve the entire community and not just specific entities.”
More about Tarboro from the town’s official site:
Incorporated in 1760, Tarboro, NC is one of the oldest towns in the United States. The town still has its original Town Common, a 15-acre park canopied by tall oaks that marks the threshold to our 45-block Historic District and renovated Downtown, all listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
According to their town’s site, Tarboro population is 11,138. From a domain investor point-of-view If we try to convert the domain into dollar value I would guess the donation equals USD 15k-40k range. As in commercial real estate, if you find a buyer that is ready, willing, and able, the sky is the limit.
You gotta love southern hospitality!
Stormet Norem, a friend of Natalie’s family and the former owner of the Scobee-Ireland-Potter Funeral Home in Delray Beach, gave DelrayBeach.com to the Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce. The first time Stormet told me the story, I said, “That was a very generous donation.” He was surprised because neither he nor the Chamber thought it was that big a deal at the time.
What a nice thing to do.
Might be a good idea to get an appraisal on it for tax purposes and include a condition that his theater/other biz be granted a “for life” link on the home page.
Not much to ask for such a worthwhile gift.
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Tax comment, on the money.
Sahar
Thanks for posting this Sahar! Nice to see someone generating goodwill for domain holders…
Hope all is well and your hand is feeling better!
Colin
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Doing better Colin, thanks for caring!
Sahar
I did this once for a library of a major city that was using citylib.org . I bought citylibrary.org at snap and tried to give it away to them, but they inexplicably turned it down.
I put up a page saying “I tried to give this name to the Library but they didn’t want it”.
6 months later the newspaper writes a story on it and lo and behold, the library changed their mind…