Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman and Bill Gates Invest Too

Re:Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman an... by tabeth on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:01PM (#14425532)

I wish there was a TLD that was regulated such that only a legitimate not for profit organization could have it, similar to .edu. Change having a .org TLD is incredibly misleading. It's not a non-profit, and no, B corporations do not count.

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Re:Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman an... by dragonwriter on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:30PM (#14425768)

> Change having a .org TLD is incredibly misleading. It's not a non-profit,

Even when there was a notional nonprofit requirement for .org, it was never enforced, and it hasn't actually existed for some time. It's only misleading to people who impute a meaning to .org that it does not claim and had never actually had.

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Re:Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman an... by tabeth on Friday May 26, 2017 @02:03PM (#14426001)

I think people are intentionally misleading by using a .org though. Otherwise, why not do a .com? Clearly they believe and/or know there's some sort of "social" aspect to it.

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Re:Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman an... by r3bl on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:50PM (#14425902)

Oh, you mean like academia.edu, which, even though it's a company, got an .edu domain?

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Re:Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman an... by eli on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:25PM (#14425738)

I think you just described .ngo, though I've never actually seen one in the wild.

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Re:Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman an... by dragonwriter on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:32PM (#14425783)

.ngo/.ong doesn't require official non-profit status, it just (in that dimension, there are requirements in other dimensions) requires an organization to be non-profit-focussed.

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Re:Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman an... by eli on Friday May 26, 2017 @03:10PM (#14426415)

I don't understand the difference. You mean like a C-Corp might technically qualify if they happen to be focused on the public interest and not generating profits?

As a global TLD it surely makes more sense to look at what an organization actually does than just blindly go by what the local tax authority thinks.

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Re:Change.org Raises $30M Led by Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman an... by blahbwah777 on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:09PM (#14425606)

I too get annoyed when people don't abide by history as I know it.

Then realize it's a silly thing to waste focus on and move along.

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