{
  "updated": "2026-07-30",
  "note": "Source of truth for projects.ponders.us/domains/. Compiled from the vault file '01 Unsorted/Things and Tools/Digital Tools/domains.md' plus live zone lists from both Cloudflare accounts (checked 2026-07-30). Ranks are Claude's judgment of importance; tiers carry the reasoning.",
  "tiers": [
    {
      "id": "load-bearing",
      "title": "Load-bearing",
      "blurb": "Losing any of these would break email, live sites, or daily work. Renew forever, auto-renew on, registrar lock on.",
      "domains": [
        { "rank": 1, "name": "ponders.us", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@non-profit.work account)", "live": "em@ponders.us email; roughly twenty live sites including projects, now, dash, phone, gym, piano, german, repeat, join, june", "why": "Your email address and almost every private dashboard hang off this. The single most important domain you own." },
        { "rank": 2, "name": "withwarmth.org", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@non-profit.work account)", "live": "em.withwarmth.org main site, auth.withwarmth.org single sign-on, catch-all email forwarding, a dozen live sites", "why": "The front door you are migrating toward, plus the sign-on system every gated site depends on." },
        { "rank": 3, "name": "100vegans.org", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@ponders.us account)", "live": "review.100vegans.org grant review board, sharestats, vegfests, stroller, 3d", "why": "The Vegan Grants review board lives here. Work-critical every single day." },
        { "rank": 4, "name": "monkey-peanut.com", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@ponders.us account)", "live": "alexa.monkey-peanut.com timeline, trip.monkey-peanut.com trip planner", "why": "The sites for Alexa. Small traffic, large heart." }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "names",
      "title": "Names worth keeping",
      "blurb": "Identity and brand-protection domains. Nothing live needs them today, but they are cheap insurance and hard to get back.",
      "domains": [
        { "rank": 5, "name": "emponders.com", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS (registered elsewhere)", "live": "", "why": "Your name in .com." },
        { "rank": 6, "name": "non-profit.work", "where": "Registered at Nearly Free Speech; active Cloudflare zone", "live": "", "why": "The identity your main Cloudflare account signs in with (Em@non-profit.work). Keep it as long as that account exists." },
        { "rank": 7, "name": "emheppler.com", "where": "Registered at Nearly Free Speech; active Cloudflare zone", "live": "", "why": "Your name." },
        { "rank": 8, "name": "ellieponders.com", "where": "Registered at Nearly Free Speech; active Cloudflare zone", "live": "", "why": "Ellie's name." },
        { "rank": 9, "name": "100vegans.com", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@ponders.us account); Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Protects the 100vegans.org brand from squatters." }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ideas",
      "title": "Ideas on hold",
      "blurb": "Active Cloudflare zones with nothing live on them. Each is a project that might still happen. Worth one honest pass at renewal time: still believe in it?",
      "domains": [
        { "rank": 10, "name": "potlucks.org", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@ponders.us account)", "live": "", "why": "Potluck philanthropy idea, the best of the trio." },
        { "rank": 11, "name": "potluckphilanthropy.org", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@ponders.us account)", "live": "", "why": "Potluck philanthropy idea." },
        { "rank": 12, "name": "potluckphilanthropy.com", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@ponders.us account)", "live": "", "why": "Potluck philanthropy idea, .com twin." },
        { "rank": 13, "name": "fortunateanimals.com", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@non-profit.work account)", "live": "", "why": "Advocacy idea." },
        { "rank": 14, "name": "defundfactoryfarming.com", "where": "Cloudflare zone; Nearly Free Speech alias", "live": "", "why": "Campaign name from the Pivot era; factoryfarms.withwarmth.org covers this ground now." },
        { "rank": 15, "name": "helpthis.org", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@non-profit.work account)", "live": "", "why": "Helping idea." },
        { "rank": 16, "name": "paperonly.org", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@ponders.us account)", "live": "", "why": "Idea domain." },
        { "rank": 17, "name": "dancesunday.com", "where": "Cloudflare zone, registered 2024", "live": "", "why": "Dance Sunday idea." },
        { "rank": 18, "name": "beanfriends.org", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@non-profit.work account)", "live": "", "why": "Silly, and the beans sing-along already exists. Best of the silly three." },
        { "rank": 19, "name": "sexybeans.org", "where": "Cloudflare zone (Em@non-profit.work account)", "live": "", "why": "Silly." },
        { "rank": 20, "name": "bunkmushrooms.com", "where": "Cloudflare zone, registered 2024", "live": "", "why": "Silly." }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "parked",
      "title": "Parked at Nearly Free Speech",
      "blurb": "The long tail from the Nearly Free Speech account (export 2026-06-24). Mostly registered elsewhere with DNS parked here. Prime candidates for a let-it-lapse review; your own note on the vault file says it best: your tendency is to want a new domain when a subdomain works fine.",
      "domains": [
        { "rank": 21, "name": "i-love-ellie.com", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Ellie. Sentimental value only." },
        { "rank": 22, "name": "iamellie.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Ellie." },
        { "rank": 23, "name": "animaladvocatesupport.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS, two aliases", "live": "", "why": "Animal Activist Support Line history; help.withwarmth.org tells that story now." },
        { "rank": 24, "name": "animalactivistsupport.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech, parked (no DNS)", "live": "", "why": "Same project, second spelling." },
        { "rank": 25, "name": "helpbetter.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Helping-era idea." },
        { "rank": 26, "name": "helpempower.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Helping-era idea." },
        { "rank": 27, "name": "calmaction.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech, parked (no DNS)", "live": "", "why": "Calm advocacy idea." },
        { "rank": 28, "name": "effectivevegan.com", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Advocacy idea." },
        { "rank": 29, "name": "newveg.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Advocacy idea." },
        { "rank": 30, "name": "exvegetarian.com", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Advocacy idea." },
        { "rank": 31, "name": "weflock.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Advocacy idea." },
        { "rank": 32, "name": "feedbrock.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Campus food idea." },
        { "rank": 33, "name": "campaignsagainstcruelty.com", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Campaign-era name." },
        { "rank": 34, "name": "264victoria.com", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS, two aliases", "live": "", "why": "An address. Purpose likely past." },
        { "rank": 35, "name": "kitchenerthings.com", "where": "Nearly Free Speech DNS", "live": "", "why": "Kitchener era." },
        { "rank": 36, "name": "jadenparker.com", "where": "Nearly Free Speech, parked (no DNS)", "live": "", "why": "Held for a person." },
        { "rank": 37, "name": "studentsexualviolence.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech, parked (no DNS)", "live": "", "why": "Earlier advocacy work." },
        { "rank": 38, "name": "tohelp.work", "where": "Nearly Free Speech, parked (no DNS)", "live": "", "why": "Helping-era idea." },
        { "rank": 39, "name": "addveg.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech, parked (no DNS)", "live": "", "why": "Advocacy idea." },
        { "rank": 40, "name": "human-animal-liberation.info", "where": "Nearly Free Speech, parked (no DNS)", "live": "", "why": "Advocacy idea." },
        { "rank": 41, "name": "helpactivsits.org", "where": "Nearly Free Speech, parked (no DNS)", "live": "", "why": "Typo-guard for helpactivists.org, which itself may be gone. Let this one go." },
        { "rank": 42, "name": "helpactivists.org", "where": "Listed at Nearly Free Speech, but the vault says it expired and someone else now owns it", "live": "", "why": "Verify ownership before renewing anything here." }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "unaccounted",
      "title": "In the vault, found nowhere",
      "blurb": "Named on the vault domains list but absent from both Cloudflare accounts and the Nearly Free Speech export. Probably lapsed. If one still matters, check the registrar it came from.",
      "domains": [
        { "rank": 43, "name": "pivotfood.org", "where": "Not found in Cloudflare or Nearly Free Speech", "live": "", "why": "Pivot era." },
        { "rank": 44, "name": "sharegoodfood.org", "where": "Not found in Cloudflare or Nearly Free Speech", "live": "", "why": "Pivot era." },
        { "rank": 45, "name": "divestforgood.org", "where": "Not found in Cloudflare or Nearly Free Speech", "live": "", "why": "Pivot era." },
        { "rank": 46, "name": "killerprofits.org", "where": "Not found in Cloudflare or Nearly Free Speech", "live": "", "why": "Pivot era." },
        { "rank": 47, "name": "proteinprofits.com", "where": "Not found in Cloudflare or Nearly Free Speech", "live": "", "why": "Pivot era." },
        { "rank": 48, "name": "iloveellie.com", "where": "Not found in Cloudflare or Nearly Free Speech (the hyphenated twin is parked there)", "live": "", "why": "Listed in the vault; status unknown." }
      ]
    }
  ]
}