Your email address is your Eircode. Send emails to your digital address just as you'd send post.
That's all it is.
The address is not tied to a person, a personal account, or a corporation that plays fast and loose with your digital rights. It belongs to the property. It doesn't change, or get sold, or get whizbang AI features.
To claim your address for a property, a letter is sent to your Eircode. The letter contains a verification code. Enter the code, and the address is yours to use. That is the only path to verification — there is no alternative, no shortcut, no override by support request.
The logic is simple: if you can receive post at the address, you are there. Physical presence at the property is the proof. The system does not ask for identity documents, utility bills, or any form of digital credential. The letter arrives, or it does not.
Today, the domain and application are owned by my company. But I want to give it away.
Commercial companies exist to make money for its shareholders. I've worked with these companies my whole career, and they're not all dastardly evildoers. But I've seen enough to know that this structure and the resulting motivations aren't sufficiently aligned to customer needs and long-term stability.
So I'd like the company to be:
This organisation exists to hold these assets on behalf of its members and to operate the service according to its rules. Like a credit union, but for technology, not money.
But this isn't enough. The guiding principles for a company can change, when the company leadership changes, or simply when their business strategy changes. Remember how Google weren't evil, once upon a time?
So, the organisation must governed by a multi-disciplinary board, with the power to overturn changes that water down or fundamentally change the company constitution.
But this still isn't enough. Board members can be swayed, replaced, influenced. So the board must include an institution that exists to ensure fairness, privacy and consumer protection.
Even then, the organisation might be dissolved. So the organisation must be asset locked. Its assets pass only to another Irish non-profit with a constitution similar to its own. They cannot be distributed to members or transferred to a commercial entity.
Could such an organisation be assembled? Contact dave@gingertechie.com if you'd like to chat.
The following services use EmailAddress.ie addresses to provide property-linked correspondence to their members.
Tuppence — a shared household management service for couples, using the property address as a shared inbox for utility bills, renewal notices, and account correspondence.
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