KeepSite Foundation
Keep your personal website alive for decades after your death.
KeepSite is a non-profit legal foundation that:
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renews your domain name for 50+ years
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keeps an ongoing backup of your website
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manages your DNS, so if your website disappears (due to your death or whatever), points your domain to the backup of your website ...
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... so it stays online, exactly as it was, for 50+ years past your death.
This maintains your digital legacy, so:
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your website stays online at its original URLs
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future generations can still read, cite, and link to your work
How does it work?
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transfer your domain to the foundation
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deposit enough money to renew your domain for 50+ years
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your money is transparently held in custody for that sole purpose
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you continue to host your website wherever you want
That’s it!
For the rest of your life, you don’t have to do anything else.
Your money and domain name are held in custody, so you can get them back at any time.
How can you trust this?
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The foundation is incorporated in The Netherlands, strictly adhering to Dutch law.
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All documents and bank statements are public, so you can independently audit.
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Non-profit by legal definition, the people are volunteers, receiving no payment, so no operating expenses are taken from your deposit.
Who founded it?
old netizen since 1994, sold cdbaby.com so he can run NowNowNow.com and KeepSite for free
building things for the web that solve problems and stops people from doing unnecessary work
doing backend for tech companies and devoting a great deal of his time to open source projects