A big blow to the Internet Archive.
  • norimee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    The archive isn’t completely dead with that yet. There is still a lot of free domain stuff and private uploads on there. A lot of public records too.

    And I think you can’t just randomly buy a .org domain, can you? You have to be officially a nonprofit.

    I remember for example couchsurfing had to change from a .org to .com when their tax exempt status was rejected by the irs and they went for profit.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      The archive isn’t completely dead with that yet.

      They’ve just been sued into almost certain bankruptcy.

      And I think you can’t just randomly buy a .org domain, can you? You have to be officially a nonprofit.

      lol, no.

      .org just means “organization”. There are literally no rules on who can own one.

      4chan is a .org domain…

    • calebeggEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      You definitely can just buy a .org, I own multiple.

    • bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Horse shit. I have had several org domains, some for over 20 years now, and never been a nonprofit