DonationChannel releases branded domain name service to its Enhanced RealBird Viewer for real estate agents.

Redwood City, CA. (July 22, 2004) - DonationChannel Inc. announces today the availability of a branded domain name service included free of charge with the recently released Enhanced RealBird aerial map viewer.

Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) July 24, 2004 -- DonationChannel Inc. announces today the availability of a branded domain name service included free of charge with the recently released Enhanced RealBird aerial map viewer.

With this feature, agents can reserve and use a domain name such as myname.RealBird.com" or HomesInSeattle.RealBird.com". These sub-domain names are pointing to the agents Enhanced Realbird Viewer and can be used as a convenient way to link the viewer to the agents website or to add it to their email signature.

The Enhanced RealBird Viewer costs only $75/year and has these features:

-   LINKING TO PROPERTY LISTINGS: Now agents can link their listings to their own branded aerial maps with full zoom and pan controls
-   EMBEDDED SCHOOLS DATABASE WITH AUTOMATIC GOOGLE® LINKS to school info. At a click, clients can display the location of local schools, then click on the hotspots and see detailed information via Google queries.
-   EMBEDDED USGS LANDMARKS DATABASE: churches, parks, shopping areas, etc.
-   CRYSTAL CLEAR COLOR, 0.25 M ZOOM LEVEL, AERIAL MAPS in selected urban locations. The enlarged map viewer (600x400 pixels) uses the latest USGS aerial map databases. All USGS maps are included free of charge.

"The RealBird Enhanced Viewer is our first GIS-based productivity power tool for real estate agents. Geographical Information Systems - GIS is the upcoming technology to benefit real estate -- after all, home buying is all about decision making using location related information" said Gabriel Gross, President and Founder of DonationChannel Inc. The RealBird Enhanced Viewer not only makes a real estate website more appealing and unique, it lets agents link their listings to their own, branded aerial maps instead of advertising-laden third party maps. For homebuyers, the RealBird Enhanced Viewer helps them make better informed decisions And now, the Viewer can be further branded to fit an agents needs with a meaningful reald.com sub-domain name."

The free, Basic RealBird Viewer is being offered to agents free of charge with the purpose to entice real estate agents to donate to local schools via the DonationChannel.org website. DonationChannel also offers downloadable aerial maps for print publication such as CMA presentations or flyers and for uploading to MLS databases.

The DonationChannel website at http://www.donationchannel.org makes it easy for real estate related professionals to sign up and commit to donate a percentage of their future real estate transactions to schools of their choice. In return, they gain the ability to promote themselves to their community with the "DonationChannel Seal of Contribution to the Community".

Please visit http://www.realbird.com and http://www.donationchannel.org for details or call (866) 551-2934.

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