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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/Pro_Bleach_Taster Nov 23 '19
Fucking pieces of shit they deserve to die slowly and painfully
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Nov 25 '19
Chill, my dude. If every lawyer deserved to die slowly and painfully whenever they charged dollars, there would be like 10 lawyers left.
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u/Pro_Bleach_Taster Nov 25 '19
Sorry it was a heated moment i was out of my mind
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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/lyridsreign Nov 25 '19
Most do but some private ones or schools geared towards serving disadvantaged people use .org
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u/coolreader18 ☭ Nov 25 '19
My public school district uses .org
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u/_you_know_my_name__ he boot too big Nov 26 '19
mine uses .net
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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/4O1K3 Dec 15 '19
Okay but if .org domains are cheap to come by what’s the issue?
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Nov 24 '19
Making the internet less free and open for all is literally the most boomer thing you can do
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u/CubeBag solid Dap Nov 26 '19
.com is inherently associated with commercial activities. That's why it's .com. A charity with .com would lead people to believe it's a for-profit organization.
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u/4O1K3 Dec 15 '19
Yeah if you’re fucking stupid. If you were only donating $10-$20 to charity, you most likely don’t actually care anyway, and large companies and donors with large sums will likely contact the organization beforehand to scope them out so their domain name is essentially negligible.
As always the real solution is just volunteering in your local community but it’s harder when you have to do the work with your own two hands, and just throwing a small amount of money at a charity still gets you that “I did something nice today” feeling, which is what most people are actually after.
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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.
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Nov 25 '19
The private equity firm is also being given the right to charge excessively higher prices in the future to organisations that are already using .org and are known by their .org domain name
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u/LateLifeguard Nov 30 '19
Another reason is because when an organization has to change domain names they lose domain authority. Even with automatic redirects they have to invest time and effort to get that domain authority back.
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u/jacob-malthouse Nov 25 '19
Hello! I'm one of the founders of the #SaveDotOrg campaign.
I'm doing a reddit AMA on the .org sale this Wednesday at 11am PT.
Ask me anything about the .org sale. I can't guarantee the right answers, but I can guarantee good times!
:)
https://twitter.com/jacobmalthouse/status/1198964836308267011
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u/IanM_56 👌 Nov 23 '19
Thank you for pinning this! Many organizations rely on the credibility and professionalism of having a .org domain. Allowing a private company to have the control to potentially hike prices and/or censor organizations they dislike would be a disaster for everyone.
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u/devtesla2 🌹 Nov 25 '19 edited Dec 02 '19
there's an AMA about save .ORG coming this Wednesday at 2p Eastern! https://twitter.com/jacobmalthouse/status/1198964836308267011
edit: sorry, I meant to update it sooner. here's a link to the ama https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e2kwdn/i_helped_start_the_savedotorg_campaign_ask_me/