Support Internet Commerce Association
Want to privately help support the work of Internet Commerce Association or the legal fights of your fellow domain owners? Private donations to the ICA are a convenient and private way for you support ICA's initiatives such as our Legal Defense Fund or the amicus briefs we file on behalf of member interests.
ICA is actively working to protect commercial domain owner’s interests. Regular updates are made on this website regarding the issues that affect us. We seek continuous input from our members about how these issues affect their businesses. Members are encouraged to discuss policy and legislative issues on ICA’s forums. We are sometimes asked to take on policy issues outside Washington or ICANN. ICA is also frequently asked to provide financial and legal support for UDRP and Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act cases and appeals that set critical precedents for the entire industry. Often, these policy issues or legal cases are important to the industry and there is value in taking on these missions, but our current budget doesn’t permit it.
We hope that you will join our association and be a part of the solution, but you don’t have to stop there. You can help us meet these unusual challenges by donating to ICA. Members and non-members are encouraged to donate to ICA to help fund this work. ICA accepts donations online, by check and we also accept domain name donations. Please only donate domains that have liquid value and that do not include any trademark conflicts. Contact us to donate domains.
Send checks payable to Internet Commerce Association at:
Donations
Internet Commerce Association
161 First Street, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02142
Donations accepted: Any amount. You can change default donation amount from $100.
ICA operates as a Business League under Section 501(c) (6) of the Internal Revenue Code. United States residents cannot deduct membership dues or contributions (such as donated domain names, or the proceeds of the auction of such names) as a charitable contribution for Federal income tax purposes. However, for U.S. tax law purposes, dues and donations to a business league (including non-cash donations) are generally deductible as a business expense, except for that portion that is devoted to lobbying and political campaign expenditures. The ICA does not anticipate incurring any political campaign expenditures in 2008 and estimates that the portion of dues and donations devoted to nondeductible lobbying expenses as defined in U.S. tax law will be in the range of 10-20%. ICA is required to provide its members with an estimate as to the percentage of members’ dues which will be devoted to lobbying expenditures during 2008. ICA will provide this estimate of the lobbying percentage for the year 2008 as soon as feasible.
The above general information may not be relied upon as tax advice, and any affected ICA member or donor should consult with the member’s own tax adviser regarding the proper treatment of their ICA support under the tax laws of the U.S. or any other nation. In particular, affected ICA members should consult with their tax advisers as to whether the excess of the auction sale price for a donated domain name, over the member’s cost for the domain name, should be reported as income or gain to the member for U.S. Federal income tax purposes.