Community Supporter Question / Issue

[palleomortis]

YES!! Or you guys could just bribe the government.

 

[iwarrior-poet]

I thought to get a ".org" domain name you had to be a nonprofit. Is it really that hard to get nonprofit status? It would make it a HECK of a lot more enticing for folks to support ENWorld.

 

[Dimwhit]

Donations are most assuredly not tax deductible (at least in the US). To be so would require Russ to set up ENWorld as a non-profit corporation AND file for, and receive, 501(c)(3) status. I'm doubting he did that.

It is, in theory, possible, but it wouldn't be worth the hassle.

 

[DaveMage]

I thought to get a ".org" domain name you had to be a nonprofit. Is it really that hard to get nonprofit status? It would make it a HECK of a lot more enticing for folks to support ENWorld.

Why?

I think the EN World community and the features that come with being a community supporter are pretty cool as is.

I mean, where else can you converse with Gary Gygax, Erik Mona, Joseph Goodman, Clark Peterson, Bill Webb, Monte Cook, Chris Pramas, Mike Mearls, Philip Reed, John Nephew, Steve Creech, Charles Ryan, Mark Plemmons, Matt Sprange, and many other industry gurus all on the same site?

(And a little profit isn't a bad thing either, IMO.)

 

[Truth Seeker]

YES!! Or you guys could just bribe the government.

??????*Points to Airforce Symbol*

 

[IronWolf]

I thought to get a ".org" domain name you had to be a nonprofit.

Nope, .org doesn't equal nonprofit.

 

[diaglo]

YES!! Or you guys could just bribe the government.

big brother is watching.

diaglo "i am the government and here to help you" Ooi

 

[Henry]

Nope, .org doesn't equal nonprofit.

I believe it USED to, back in the mid-1990's when the Web was really expanding, but those restrictions were removed - what, 7 or 8 years ago?

 

[Keia]

Somehow . . . I feel a disturbance . . . as though my thread's been hijacked for evil tax purposes . . . .

Keia