>> Personally, I would go with wikipedia, craigslist, twitter, internet archive, and a public search algorithm.<p>Well none of these should be public domain, since were created, and are run by, existing organizations. Going down the route of "if you become successful, you'll get "nationalized" and placed in the public domain" seems to be, well, not likely to get much support.<p>Of course nothing stops you creating a project, placing it in the public domain, and then driving the project, getting funding, attracting an audience, becoming a meaningful social good. (See SQLite as an example of this approach.)<p>But turning over existing, valuable, successful projects to a "Trusted Public Body" (whatever that is? trusted by whom? which public? .org debacle anyone?) is simply a good way to kill successful projects.<p>And that's before we get to impossible questions like "who decides what gets moved to public domain?" - the Greek government? Silicon Value investors? my mom?