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Grassroots.org - Anyone heard of this?

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Former Member $organization

They seem to have some great services for nonprofits. One being free web hosting through BlueTube. Does anyone have any experience with them?

  • $organization

    That domain is currently resolving to the owner's website right now, a guy named Mike Mann who appears to be an entrepreneur of sorts in the domain name market. Looks pretty unattractive to me, if not an outright scam.

  • $organization in reply to Former Member

    I'm just visiting grassroots.org in my web browser and all I get back is some HTML that serves me mikemann.com in a frame. The most I can see of the actual site is here: http://mikemanncommm.wpengine.com/blog/2010/11/29/grassroots-org/

    I don't doubt that they're a registered 501(c)(3), but it really doesn't pass the sniff test for me. 

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    Former Member $organization

    I’m not seeing that on a DNS lookup. https://dig.whois.com.au/whois/grassroots.org

     

    I also checked on Guidestar and they are a legit nonprofit. What were you using to look up the domain?

     

    https://www2.guidestar.org/profile/32-0045865

     

    From: Tessitura Technical Forum [mailto:forums-technical@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Nick Reilingh
    Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2016 10:14 AM
    To: Gloria Ormsby
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Technical Forum] Grassroots.org - Anyone heard of this?

     

    That domain is currently resolving to the owner's website right now, a guy named Mike Mann who appears to be an entrepreneur of sorts in the domain name market. Looks pretty unattractive to me, if not an outright scam.

    From: Gloria Ormsby <bounce-gloriaormsby5026@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 6/24/2016 2:00:53 PM

    They seem to have some great services for nonprofits. One being free web hosting through BlueTube. Does anyone have any experience with them?




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    Former Member $organization

    Ha! I’m seeing that now. Funny that’s not what it was last week. Thanks Nick! I appreciate it!

     

    Gloria

     

    From: Tessitura Technical Forum [mailto:forums-technical@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Nick Reilingh
    Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 11:06 AM
    To: Gloria Ormsby
    Subject: RE: [Tessitura Technical Forum] Grassroots.org - Anyone heard of this?

     

    I'm just visiting grassroots.org in my web browser and all I get back is some HTML that serves me mikemann.com in a frame. The most I can see of the actual site is here: http://mikemanncommm.wpengine.com/blog/2010/11/29/grassroots-org/

    I don't doubt that they're a registered 501(c)(3), but it really doesn't pass the sniff test for me. 

    From: Gloria Ormsby <bounce-gloriaormsby5026@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 6/27/2016 1:25:33 PM

    I’m not seeing that on a DNS lookup. https://dig.whois.com.au/whois/grassroots.org

     

    I also checked on Guidestar and they are a legit nonprofit. What were you using to look up the domain?

     

    https://www2.guidestar.org/profile/32-0045865

     

    From: Tessitura Technical Forum [mailto:forums-technical@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Nick Reilingh
    Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2016 10:14 AM
    To: Gloria Ormsby
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Technical Forum] Grassroots.org - Anyone heard of this?

     

    That domain is currently resolving to the owner's website right now, a guy named Mike Mann who appears to be an entrepreneur of sorts in the domain name market. Looks pretty unattractive to me, if not an outright scam.

    From: Gloria Ormsby <bounce-gloriaormsby5026@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 6/24/2016 2:00:53 PM

    They seem to have some great services for nonprofits. One being free web hosting through BlueTube. Does anyone have any experience with them?




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