Dot .hobo – a new home for the homeless.
Greg Juricz is a Polish-American developer from Seattle, WA; having worked all his life for companies such as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, he found himself clutching life’s shortest straw.
“Worked my ass off at corporate America and got the boot after a merger eliminated my position,” says Juricz.
“After eight years of cubicle life, churning out code for operating systems, I was told I had to leave. Thanks, Obama – I voted for ya in 2008!” exclaims Juricz, visibly dejected.
After being laid off, Juricz soon found himself in the streets – a homeless drifter – after he could not afford his 1200 sq.ft. studio in downtown Seattle. He had to do odd jobs to survive in this bad economy, including washing petri dishes and dog-sitting for the rich.
“One night, I was sleeping on a bench downtown and I had this idea, what if all the homeless united under one unit, one TLD? We could achieve so much together, you know? So I will apply for dot .hobo as soon as I can.”
Juricz is now seeking out an angel investor that would cough up the $185,000 ICANN fee.
During the day, he walks downtown with a sign about dot .hobo and criticizes ICANN’s slow progress with gTLD applications. He hopes to achieve funding before ICANN shuts its doors to a new round of gTLDs.
“At the rate that ICANN approves gTLDs, I might have a job and a house by then! So I must act now, while my homeless brothers and sisters still need me. Dot .hobo will be the world’s first online home for the homeless,” says Juricz.
So far, he has collected $27.40 in loose change, but the future of dot .hobo appears promising.
He is my neighbor and since he has worked for Microsoft since inception, he is a billionaire.
Looks is deceiving in this part of the country as Seattle is voted the worst dress in USA
I am on the right carrying the sign – all websites are “BullS”