Once upon a time there was a girl.
A young woman. A college student. A generous, lovely, amazing person.
She met a little girl who had cancer who lost her battle and it changed her life.
This young woman began a crusade to make the lives of cancer children better if she could.
She began the Kid’s Cancer Crusade.
She sent out boxes full of gifts to cancer kids, their brothers, their sisters. She followed their stories and always sent encouraging emails and support.
She reached out to cancer families and made their journey a little brighter by letting them know people care.
Then she met a total douchebag. A douchebag by which all douchebagdom will be measured. The douchebag had bought the business (NgiNeThemba Designs & Domains) that registered her domain name for her website…where she helps the kids with cancer…THAT one.
Douchebag told the young lady that if she didn’t pay him $2000…all the money she had for her gifts and cards and goodies for the sick kids…he would sell her domain name out from under her charity or WORSE, he would just redirect the domain name to send people to a porn site.
YEAH.
DOUCHEBAG.
After consulting lawyers, there was no way she could get around paying the douchebag for her domain name.
She gave the douchebag all her charity money so that there was no chance that a cancer family trying to find her website would find a naked-girls-NOW kind of site.
She now has no money for her kids.
BUT she has the chance to get her money back due to a petitioning process. She found out that if she can get enough petition signers to support her claim to the domain name, a court can rule that she has rights to it and the douchebag has to pay back the $2000.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take the time to sign the petition. It’s already reached it’s goal, but we want the judge to be overwhelmed, we want no mistakes of how strongly we feel about a douchebag that would send families looking for cancer help to a porn site.
If you are inspired by this young woman’s mission to help families, she can always use donations to provide thos boxes full of love and compassion. Consider making a donation of any size to her crusade, in honor of Peyton or another cancer child or just in thanks for the healthy children you know.
I never directly ask, but if you Stumble, Twitter, Digg this post, we can get the word out as far as possible to help Jennifer.
Thank you ALL!
on Dec 16th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Signed it…
on Dec 16th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I was #2646. Isn’t that more than enough? I hope so!
on Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:24 am
That is awful what he did.
on Dec 16th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I hate douchebags.
on Dec 16th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I wish I could do more than sign the petition but I can’t at the moment. It pains me to think that there are people who are more interested in money and greed than helping out children who need it and the money more than he does.
on Dec 16th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
That is just plain mean!
on Dec 16th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I would use another word than douchebag…but this is a family site.
I thought they changed that law ages ago…you used to be able to register any name you like and extort anyone who wants it. But they changed it that if you can prove you legally own the name and the other person has no reason to use it, then they can’t. That happened with madonna.com and she finally was able to get the website without paying the 2 million the douchebag asked for. Why didn’t that happen in this case??
on Dec 17th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Douchebags are mean!
on Dec 17th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
sales@nginethemba.com
support@nginethemba.com
NgiNeThemba Designs, Inc
70 Spradlin Farm Dr, Suite 185
Christiansburg, VA 24073
888.516.0231
these are from the webhost site.
if everyone took a moment to send an invite from their favorite spam / porn / general douchebag site to these address’ that would be a nice way to say “thank you”. just kidding. or am i?
on Jan 7th, 2009 at 10:43 am
I signed too.
on Mar 11th, 2009 at 3:34 am
Very nice information. Thanks for this.
on Mar 11th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Very nice information. Thanks for this.
on Jan 30th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
I think you need to check facts. The owner of the domain is Jennifer Lehmann from Fremont Ohio. According to the website, she is the woman who started the site. I do think that this might be one of those urban legends that catch fire and race around the internet.
I emailed her from the kidscancercrusade website to inquire about the truthfullness of these claims as I have heard them elsewhere as well.
But, bottom line….since she already owns the domain, no one can take it away from her unless she lets it lapse. Registering a doman can take as little as 60 bucks a year or less. I’ve gotten some of mine for far less….just saying