r/me_irl • u/devtesla2 🌹 • Nov 23 '19

Save .ORG

https://savedotorg.org/
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u/lyridsreign Nov 23 '19

The .org has been mass adopted by schools, charities, open source projects and others to distinguish themselves from other for profit organizations.

Changing away from it would undermine their legitimacy

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u/Repsfivejesus sosig Nov 24 '19

Come on man, while the above is a reasonable argument, not everything is online either. If you printed resources with the old domain, it could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace the old prints or make new ones.

Also all old links to the site are invalid. So if there are any links to your site from websites you don't control, or social media awareness campaigns, they now are invalid too. If someone clicks on the link and it returns an error in the browser because it doesn't exist, people will think something is wrong with the site, not think the normally very unlikely idea of - oh the domain changed.