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| Permalink View Article Stats Promoted to Headline (H4) on 4/8/11: GoDaddy CEO Elephant Shooting Video Spurs Competitor, Namecheap, To Raise $20,000 For Conservation Group Quicklink submitted by Rob Kall (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A video of an American CEO shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe that villagers then sliced apart for meat has raised thousands of dollars for a conservation group after a rival Internet firm used the graphic footage to steal away customers. The founder of Save The Elephants, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, said he was surprised but appreciative by the more than $20,000 in funds raised by Internet domain registration site Namecheap. Namecheap offered to donate $1 for every customer who opened a new account with them after the chief executive of their competitor GoDaddy.com appeared in the video of an elephant being killed last month. |
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