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> As far as I can tell, the organisation could not have made the registration as a legal entity before existing. Domain name ownership can be transferred. It'

> As far as I can tell, the organisation could not have made the registration as a legal entity before existing. Domain name ownership can be transferred. It's trivial for a founding member to register the domain name first, then transfer ownership to the organisation once it has been founded.

Jiocus 5y ago
Of course, but many services would require a registered VAT number to be able to fulfill a purchase or transfer to an organisation. Or rather, to set up such an account in the first place. Frankly, WHOIS records is to crude a metric to really pass judgement on anything nowadays. The masked entries in the lookup for libera.chat i.e. "REDACTED FOR PRIVACY", are typical of registrars not overstepping GDPR compliance when making them public.