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As someone else pointed out, the church is flushing 20 years of SEO work in order to satisfy the ego of RMN to finally make the change he wanted 20+ years ago.
LDS.org, the church's main page, will change to ChurchofJesusChrist.org, and MormonNewsroom.org, the organization's website for church news, will become Newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
The domain name ChurchofJesusChrist.org will now point to the LDS.org home page, but it will take a few months to fully replace LDS.org and MormonNewsroom.org with the new domain names.
Mormon.org will become ComeUntoChrist.org until the church can fully incorporate it into the ChurchofJesusChrist.org domain.
"Because its primary audience is those outside the church, merging it with the church member-focused ChurchofJesusChrist.org will take more time," the church's statement reads.
The church will also consolidate and change the names of several social media accounts to put more emphasis on the name of Jesus Christ. The channels will "publish content more focused on living and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ," the statement reads.
A new Facebook group, called "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Inspiration and News," was created to both inform members of church news and updates, as well as become a place of "community and connection."
The church's Twitter account will remain "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" with the handle @ChurchNewsroom. It will be the "primary source on social media for news" from the church, the statement reads.
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And in other breaking news, the LDS church is spending all of their time and resources re-branding their name and websites...
I used to think the church was so big and benevolent it should have been considered a world power. What with all of their bishops storehouses and charitable donations. How horrible to think that I almost stayed that blind and trusting that they were really taking care of other people's problems.
lds.org will continue to work for a loooooong time. I doubt they'll ever actually let it go.
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So will this mean that they no longer will use the mormon.org domain? Will it go up for grabs? If they don't do it, what is the possibility they will run afoul of cybersquatting laws?
At a minimum, this is likely to reduce overall web traffic. Between people being used to the old domains and the haste of typing the longer URLs, we will see a marked downturn in website traffic.
Anyone want to buy up the mormon.org domain if it become available?
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the name "Church of Jesus Christ" already taken? According to a quick google search the Bickertonites ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Churc ... kertonite)) already legally owns the name.
The Bickertonites are a Mormon splinter group that went with Sydney Rigdon after the Joseph Smith succession crisis.
I'm not sure if there is legal precedence for a group claiming a domain name that already belongs to another incorporated legal organization?
I say these things in the name of Joshua and Awmen
I can just see some poor individual looking for a path to God, answering one of the ads with the new nomenclature and getting a response that they're being sent a copy of the BOOK OF MORMON along with two missionaries.
"Wait....you guys are the Mormons?!?!.....Oh crap...."
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"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
el-asherah wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:10 pm
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the name "Church of Jesus Christ" already taken? According to a quick google search the Bickertonites ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Churc ... kertonite)) already legally owns the name.
The Bickertonites are a Mormon splinter group that went with Sydney Rigdon after the Joseph Smith succession crisis.
I'm not sure if there is legal precedence for a group claiming a domain name that already belongs to another incorporated legal organization?
Apparently the Mormon (aka LDS) church isn't the church of Jesus Christ, just a church of Jesus Christ.
And suddenly the Bickertonites praised the Lord for the unexpected massive increase of interest in their church and website. Truly, the Lord works in mysterious ways, even through a now generic church of jesus christ.
Also, I have dreamed a dream. However, my artistic abilities suck. I imagined the lines forming in front the desk of St Peter at the pearly gates. One line was marked Hindu, another Buddist, Another Muslim and finally one - Christian. Until March 4, 2019, there was a little speciality line marked Mormon on the far right with a little veiled gate all to itself. It had a few curious slits in the curtain veil and the whitest hand poking out. But this morning it was crossed out, and a barrier closed it off with a sign stating "Discontinued, Please go to Christian line"
And there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth as the mormons lost their FastPass into Super VIP heaven as they now must trodge and wait through the Christian line with all the other plebians.
Layers upon layers of confusion! which church is this web site?
I actually can see a method to RMN's madness. He wants to add confusion on the internet! Currently, if you google "mormon", "lds", or "church jesus christ latter day saints" you get very specific narrowly focused searches that directly lead people to websites describing accurate doctrinal and historical information that steers people away from the church. Google "church jesus christ", and you are going to get a very broad generic search that could be about any christian church or history - information specific to the "lds" church will be lost in a sea of responses, especially as "mormon", "lds", and "latter day saints" are slowly dropped from the church's and more importantly the internet's vocabulary over the coming decades.
Expect a RMN revelation soon - the new generic name is "Church of Jesus Christ"
I say these things in the name of Joshua and Awmen
Holy Crap! Ken Asay sits on a plane next to Elder Maxwell who rips up a napkin suggesting the church dwindles in the future. Then he quits his job and goes to the Provo Temple everyday and eventually receives a heavenly vision calling him to re-restore the Church in Jackson County Missouri? Then only to die in a plane crash flying back from Missouri?
Why does the wackiness of Mormonism NEVER end???
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no1saint wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 4:05 amThe amount of resources being allocated to this is obscene.
This would be hilarious, if most of my relatives weren't contributing way too much of their own resources that LDS-Inc. is now just literally flushing.
Think about it: LDS-Inc. is literally doing everything possible to make their electronic representation on the inter-webs completely generic. churchofjesuschrist dot org? That could represent any one of 10,000 - 40,000 christian denominations. (Depending on how Google feels when you ask how many "christian" denominations there are.)
Selfishly, I hope this ends up like this: An "investigator" wants to find out about mormonism. They ask google about mormon and see a reference to churchofjesuschrist and skip right on by, thinking: "Well, that can't be the mormon website." Then they move on to reading mormonthink.com
And: Don't wonder for a millisecond if the mormon.org or lds.org domain names are going to go up for sale any time soon. LDS-Inc. will retain ownership of those names, and forward them to their new, generic "church" name, much like that brilliant domain up-thread that is owned by mormonstories.
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wtfluff wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:05 pm
And: Don't wonder for a millisecond if the mormon.org or lds.org domain names are going to go up for sale any time soon. LDS-Inc. will retain ownership of those names, and forward them to their new, generic "church" name, much like that brilliant domain up-thread that is owned by mormonstories.
Yeah there is zero chance that those domains will EVER be available to anyone... they will sit in LDS possession for time and all eternity to forward to whatever domain they feel is going to help their cause at that moment.
The church spent decades building those sites up and awareness for those domains... they will STILL be used for a very long time in messaging, knowing that they will redirect. I guarantee you that just like the overall name change, many people will type in "lds.org" instead of "churchofjesuschrist.org" even if it makes Satan happy.
For a second when I saw the change announcement I was suspicious of the COB troll here on NOM because I had just posted a couple of days ago that Satan was still winning with TSCC still paying tithing money for mormon.org ads on YouTube.
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