When the object matters more than the owner: a code of its own, with photographs, a description, and the history you can show for it.
01 Schedule of charges
One account covers all three. Nothing renews by itself — at five years you decide again, and until you do the page keeps answering.
| $1myowners.infoa person | $9legalowner.infoa thing | $29registeredowner.infoa thing with papers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the slug names | You | One object | One object |
| Term | Five years | Five years | Five years |
| Free to start | One slug | — | — |
| Works handwritten | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Public page or private relay | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Photographs | — | Yes | Yes |
| Description and provenance | — | Yes | Yes |
| Stored documents | — | — | Yes, encrypted at rest |
| Transfers to the next owner | — | — | Yes, $10 each |
| Tamper-evident custody log | — | — | Yes |
| Two-factor required | — | — | Yes |
| Suited to | Keys, bags, laptops, instrument cases — anything of yours | Bikes, tools, lenses — a thing worth its own record | Vehicles, trailers, watches — anything sold with paperwork |
Prices in US dollars, inclusive. There is no per-scan fee, no subscription, and never a charge to the person who finds your property.
02 The record
Your telephone number identifies you. This identifies the thing — which is what you need when the thing changes hands, or when you own forty of them.
Nine characters with a check character. A wrong character is refused outright rather than resolving to somebody else's property, and O/0 and I/1 are corrected for you.
Serial plates, scratches, the mark that makes it yours and not one just like it — what you would otherwise be describing to an insurer from memory.
Where it came from, when you acquired it, what has been done to it. Dated as entered, so it reads as a history rather than a claim assembled afterwards.
03 Specimen
A public record. A private one shows the relay form alone and nothing below it.
X151-CTTG-V
Trek 920 touring bicycle · matte black · frame no. WTU419H0242N
04 Procedure
You receive a short code. Nobody chooses their own; they are issued at random, so there is nothing to squat and no queue for good ones.
Engrave it, label it, or hide it inside the case. Print the code for the objects with room for one.
A finder, a buyer, or a pawnbroker can look it up and reach you without your number ever appearing on the object itself.
05 Disclosure
Chosen per record, and changeable after something has already gone missing.
The page shows what you put on it — a name, an email, a number. Nothing is displayed that you did not enter yourself.
The page shows a message form and nothing else: not your name, not your number, not whether the record belongs to anybody at all.
The finder's message reaches you. You choose whether to answer, by email or by text, and whether to offer a reward. They learn nothing about you unless you tell them.
06 Plainly stated
The things worth knowing before you write this on something that matters.
A number is a lease, not property. Numbers get recycled. Whoever proves control of one by text holds the slug; documents do not override a failed proof, because that is the only rule that cannot be talked around.
Nothing resolves until it is proven. An unverified claim is a private draft that expires. Typing in a stranger's number returns exactly what typing in an unregistered one returns, which is the point.
We are a registry, not an authority. We record what an owner tells us and what a custody log can evidence. We do not adjudicate ownership, hold anything in escrow, or replace any government register.