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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.

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?

nibbler wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:28 pm http://churchofjesuschrist.org
http://thechurchofjesuschrist.org

Apparently the Mormon (aka LDS) church isn't the church of Jesus Christ, just a church of Jesus Christ.

nibbler wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:28 pm
http://churchofjesuschrist.org
http://thechurchofjesuschrist.org

Apparently the Mormon (aka LDS) church isn't the church of Jesus Christ, just a church of Jesus Christ.

Red Ryder wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 4:10 pm Check out this one:

http://churchojesuschrist.org/

It's amazing the church doesn't think of this first to head off the antis.

el-asherah wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 4:26 pm Also check this out, with it's own "lectures on faith"
http://churchofjesuschrist.net

and what churchofjesuschrist.org used to be, from the way back machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20070203021 ... hrist.org/

wtfluff wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 9:17 am

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

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.