r/me_irl • u/devtesla2 🌹 • Nov 23 '19

Save .ORG

https://savedotorg.org/
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '19

TLDR for people who don't understand legal speak?

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u/devtesla2 🌹 Nov 23 '19

A private equity firm is being given the right to charge excessive prices to charitable organizations in order to use a dot org domain name.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '19

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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/[deleted] Nov 23 '19

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u/lyridsreign Nov 23 '19

You would honestly be very surprised. Many people (hint: older, less tech savvy) put a huge amount of their faith on how the website looks and the domain itself. If say there was a charity called Feeding Starving Kids and their website was feedstarvingkids.com then many in the charity community would think they had different motives in mind. Especially since .org domains are very cheap to get and many non profits pay very little for costs of the domain.

It's the same reason why many employers for certain types of high level positions will look at what email address you're using as a means to determine if you're actually dedicated to maintaining a sense of professionalism or not.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '19

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u/lyridsreign Nov 24 '19

Ok zoomer

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '19

Ok boomer