Claim a real star and keep watching it — naming it and attending to it is how its information ore gets mined. Earth is at Information Civilization, Level One: we have only just begun to record what the universe holds. You get a certificate with real astronomical data and a permanent link you can keep sharing.
Claim a star, then keep observing it — together we raise humanity's information civilization level in the universe.
Star.org is not just a commemorative keepsake shop. Behind it lies a whole set of ideas about how a civilization measures itself, how the universe gets developed, and how each person takes part — written up as five ideas and a whitepaper.
We habitually measure civilization by energy utilization: how much energy you can harness decides which rung you stand on. We propose another, equally fundamental yardstick — information utilization, the degree to which a civilization grasps true information about the universe. By this measure Earth is at Information Civilization, Level One: we have only just begun to record and share the universe's information planet-wide.
The universe holds three fundamentally different resources: information ore, energy ore, and matter ore. Energy ore and matter ore both require enormous industrial and spacefaring capacity to touch. Only information ore asks not for a starship but for attention — the one resource every person can start on immediately. So that is what we develop.
The biggest bottleneck in developing space is that it makes ordinary people feel it has nothing to do with them. To involve all of humanity, each person first needs a real bond with the sky — the right to name. Name and claim a real star, and it stops being a point of light on a backdrop and becomes “my star.” (This is a personal bond of emotion and memory, not official IAU naming.)
To “develop” information ore is not to dig it open but to observe, record, understand, and tell it. So whoever observes or attends to a star's information is developing that star's information ore, and therefore holds a certain information right over it. We make that record public, transparent and independently verifiable.
Our bodies cannot reach the distant stars, but our information and imagination can. The Three-Body Problem, Star Trek, and the starfields of every game turn human attention and imagination toward the cosmos — a special mode of mining information ore that completes the mining of real celestial data.
The unsettling part of services like this is that you cannot verify anything: you do not know whether your name will be resold to the next person, or how long the records will survive. We address the first problem by publishing the entire registry.
Every claim is written to the public registry immediately, and anyone can look it up.
Each star is allocated exactly once, and leaves the pool the moment it is claimed.
The registry is plain text — no account and no payment needed to read it.
This is the most recent real claim (number 14). Anyone can open it and check; it is exactly what your own page will look like after payment.
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At checkout you provide the display name, an optional dedication, and the email address for the certificate. You can choose to stay anonymous.
The system randomly assigns you a star that has not been claimed yet, and generates the PDF certificate and permanent link page.
Within minutes you receive an email with the certificate and permanent link; the link renders a card when shared on social platforms.
US$29 · One-time payment, includes a PDF certificate and a permanent link page. Checkout is handled by Lemon Squeezy as the Merchant of Record, and supports ordinary fiat payment methods such as credit cards.
Claim a starNext you enter the claimer name and an optional dedication, then continue to checkout.