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A name change is a huge thing and you're diluting your userbase. I also think most of your userbase will consider such name changes a bad thing as rebranding is a major marketing tool of big business which a lot of us would be sceptical of.
I think you do good work but your name is already perfect.
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How is privacy tools operated? What is the organization behind it? Is it a business or a group or volunteers? I’ve been visiting for years, it’s a good site Edit: looks like it’s becoming a business? > The PrivacyTools team is proud to introduce a suite of privacy-centric online services to connect you with other privacy-minded individuals and stay safe and secure online. No advertisers, no Google Analytics, no track…
Currently it is a not-for-profit organization, though we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability.
See what happened to freenode recently, how well that worked out for them :)
The founder is Jonah Aragon right? He used to run an OpenNIC TLD if I'm correct and abandoned that for some reason a long time ago.
I'm a user of a couple of your services, specifically those that will be affected by a domain change. The founder is Jonah Aragon right? He used to run an OpenNIC TLD if I'm correct and abandoned that for some reason a long time ago.
No, he's the system administrator, the founder was Burung Hantu. https://privacytools.io/about/
Doesn't sound like a great plan really. If I were you I'd work harder with the domain owner to get control. It sounds like he's just hard to reach, not obstructive as such. A name change is a huge thing and you're diluting your userbase. I also think most of your userbase will consider such name changes a bad thing as rebranding is a major marketing tool of big business which a lot of us would be sceptical of. I thin…
For context, we did bring this up with Burung Hantu, when he was around about 6 months ago. We offered to buy the domain.
The exact details were discussed more here:
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Currently it is a not-for-profit organization, though we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability.
It should really remain not for profit if you want to be taken seriously at what you do. At least make it a foundation if it needs a legal entity :) And be really careful who you take money from and under which conditions. See what happened to freenode recently, how well that worked out for them :)
That is the intention, and it says that in the blog article :).
> Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. This will take some careful planning and time to get right, but we’re confident we can prevent this from ever happening again, and keep us independent of any one team member.
Just to clarify, we plan to become a 501(c)(3) organization.
This was another thing Burung Hantu wasn't interested in.
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Currently it is a not-for-profit organization, though we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability.
Does that mean the new site will be for profit and owned by the mods?
> Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. This will take some careful planning and time to get right, but we’re confident we can prevent this from ever happening again, and keep us independent of any one team member.
Just to clarify, we plan to become a 501(c)(3) organization.
The site will remain run in the same way, it's just we won't have someone at the very top who is never around, never contributes and owns the domain.
Funding is transparently listed:
https://opencollective.com/privacytools
https://blog.privacytools.io/privacytools-io-joins-the-open-...
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If you wait until the new name is decided, then you can get in contact with me via email: hello [at] freddym [dot] xyz
Heads up, it looks like your domain has expired: Domain Name: FREDDYM.XYZ Registry Domain ID: D188258119-CNIC Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.tucows.com Registrar URL: http://www.tucows.com/ Updated Date: 2021-07-13T05:55:57.0Z Creation Date: 2020-06-02T10:18:31.0Z Registry Expiry Date: 2021-06-02T23:59:59.0Z Registrar: Tucows.com Co.
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It should really remain not for profit if you want to be taken seriously at what you do. At least make it a foundation if it needs a legal entity :) And be really careful who you take money from and under which conditions. See what happened to freenode recently, how well that worked out for them :)
> It should really remain not for profit if you want to be taken seriously at what you do. At least make it a foundation if it needs a legal entity :) And be really careful who you take money from and under which conditions. That is the intention, and it says that in the blog article :). > Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. Th…
Doesn't sound like a great plan really. If I were you I'd work harder with the domain owner to get control. It sounds like he's just hard to reach, not obstructive as such. A name change is a huge thing and you're diluting your userbase. I also think most of your userbase will consider such name changes a bad thing as rebranding is a major marketing tool of big business which a lot of us would be sceptical of. I thin…
> Doesn't sound like a great plan really. If I were you I'd work harder with the domain owner to get control. It sounds like he's just hard to reach, not obstructive as such. For context, we did bring this up with Burung Hantu, when he was around about 6 months ago. We offered to buy the domain. The exact details were discussed more here: https://old.reddit.com/comments/osvuf9/comment/h6rnkyt/ https://old.reddit.com/…