An internet you own instead of rent.
One platform for the organizations that run a gate, keep members and donors, or stand behind a credential. Underneath it is one idea: what is yours should stay yours.
Four things organizations use, and a browser for you
Ticketing
Sell passes and seats on your own page and get paid directly. Every pass scans at the gate, even with no signal.
How ticketing worksThe Office
Contacts, members, gifts, forms and attendance in one place, kept on our server and sealed so only your team can read it.
Tour The Office▶ Watch the video
Credentials
Issue licenses and certificates people keep for life. Anyone can confirm one in seconds, for free.
For issuersFiduciary authority
A power of attorney a bank can check on the spot: in force, revoked, or handed to a successor.
For attorneysThe FreeholdIP Browser
A desktop browser for Windows, macOS and Linux: open the names people own, claim your own, and carry your keys.
Get the browserYour money goes straight to you, your proof checks out without us, and your gate keeps working when the signal drops. Your office runs on our server today, sealed so we cannot read it, and we are working toward the day it can run on yours.
The internet made you a tenant. This makes you an owner.
Today your identity is scattered across silos that companies and registrars own. They hold the keys; you rent your presence; they set the terms, and they can lose your data, change the rules, or lock you out. Even your name online is rented: a domain you pay for, year after year, or lose.
FreeholdIP flips that. Your identity becomes something you own outright, like a deed. The credentials you earn live with you, signed by the institutions that issued them, verifiable by anyone, anywhere, even offline. A copy you hold stays provable even if the issuer, or FreeholdIP itself, disappears.
A step back toward the internet as it was meant to be
The web was founded as an open, decentralized space where people, not platforms, were in control. Its own inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, has said as much, and has spent years trying to win it back from the handful of companies that came to own our identities, our data, and our names.
Your FreeholdIP name is the first brick.
It's already a name only you control. In time, on a freer internet, that same name can become your domain, one you own outright, not one you rent from a registrar year after year. No annual fee to keep your own name. No company that can revoke it. You own it, the way you own a deed.
That world doesn't arrive on its own. It takes people choosing to own their corner of it. Claiming your unique identity is the first, concrete step in making it real.
Further reading: Tim Berners-Lee on re-decentralizing the web, MIT CSAIL on Solid, the Solid project, and the Contract for the Web.
One deed, three kinds of peace of mind
The identity owner
- Own it for life: your key, no one else's.
- Decide exactly what's shown.
- All your credentials in one place, shared with a single link.
- Its proof survives any company, including ours.
Government agencies, boards, schools and associations
- Issue credentials that can't be silently altered.
- You stay the trust root: your key, your domain, not us.
- Free to issue, renew, and revoke, instantly.
- Cut fraud and the endless "is this real?" phone calls.
- Your credentials keep verifying even if you leave.
The public
For verified credentials:
- Confirm verified credentials in seconds.
- No account, no fee, no phone calls.
- Works offline. It's just math.
- Trust the proof, not a middleman.
- See instantly if something's been revoked or forged.
Start with one event or one office
Tell us what you run. We will set it up with you and show you every screen before anything goes live.
Or email paul@freeholdip.com