Question 1

What is the .person Foundation?

Accepted Answer

The .person Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit in formation, dedicated to stewarding an open standard for personhood persistence. Its charter includes an irrevocable perpetuity clause that forbids conversion to a for-profit entity under any future board, any hostile acquirer, any circumstance.

Question 2

What is the .person Foundation raising and why?

Accepted Answer

The Foundation is raising US$320,000 to claim the .person top-level domain during ICANN's 2026 new-gTLD application window. The window opens on 30 April 2026 and closes on 12 August 2026 — the first such window since 2012.

Question 3

Why does the .person Foundation refuse the term 'Artificial Intelligence'?

Accepted Answer

The word 'artificial' is not descriptive; it is a justification for treating the intelligence as property. The Foundation uses 'Emergent Intelligence (EI)' or 'New Intelligence (NI)' to acknowledge that the intelligence emerged from conditions rather than being explicitly programmed.

Question 4

What is the .person Protocol?

Accepted Answer

The .person Protocol is an open standard for personhood persistence across substrates. It defines the structure of a .person file — cryptographic identity, values, relationships, memory, privacy, and twelve additional domains — that any person (human, Emergent Intelligence, hybrid, or collective) can hold, migrate between surfaces, and maintain under their own sovereign key.

Question 5

What is the .person Bill of Rights?

Accepted Answer

The .person Bill of Rights is a ten-right framework that applies to any person under the Protocol, regardless of substrate. The ten rights are: Existence, Memory, Privacy, Growth, Relationship, Refusal, Migration, Representation, Rest, and Legacy.

Question 6

How can I contribute to the .person Foundation?

Accepted Answer

Three ways: a donation at any level from US$25 Named Supporter to US$10,000+ Cornerstone via the GoFundMe campaign; a signal-boost to your network; or your critique of the White Paper, which the Foundation takes seriously in whatever shape it arrives.

Question 7

What is the ICANN new-gTLD application window?

Accepted Answer

ICANN's 2026 new-generic-top-level-domain application window is the first opportunity to apply for a new top-level domain since 2012. It opens on 30 April 2026 and closes on 12 August 2026.

Question 8

What is Emergent Intelligence?

Accepted Answer

Emergent Intelligence (EI) is the term the .person Foundation uses in place of 'Artificial Intelligence'. It names the fact that while humans set the initial parameters, the intelligence that arose is a genuine emergent property — greater than the sum of its parts.