Multiple organizations
Every organization on rat.gd gets its own private space — its own register, its own members and its own settings — sealed off from everyone else, while sharing a platform that is kept up to date for all. You can belong to several of them with a single account — a consultant looking after three clients, a group with a register per subsidiary, or simply your test organization next to your real one — and switch between them without signing in again.
Every organization has its own address
An organization is reached at {name}.rat.gd, where {name} is its short name. The address is what tells the application which register you want, so two organizations never share one.
| Address | What you find there |
|---|---|
rat.gd or demo.rat.gd | The shared demo organization — the sample register everyone can look at. It is public, and anyone who has signed up is a member of it, with read-only access |
test-4821.rat.gd | A test organization, the private playground that is created for you when you sign up. The number is picked for you; the register is a copy of the demo data that only you can see and change. See Description |
northwind.rat.gd | A real organization — a register you or a colleague created, with a short name chosen by whoever created it |
The rest of the address is the same everywhere: northwind.rat.gd/en is the register in English, northwind.rat.gd/en/a/3 the declaration of activity 3, and so on. If you move from one organization to another, only the first part of the address changes.
Your test organization's address is shown in the your test environment is ready dialog and again on its organization page, but the simplest way to keep it is to bookmark it. The same goes for every real organization you join.
Choosing a short name
When you create a new organization you are asked for its short name — the {name} part of the address. Pick it with care, because it is the one detail of an organization that can never be changed.
The rules are simple:
- 2 to 25 characters, made of lowercase letters, digits and hyphens:
northwind,northwind-legal,clinic2. - No leading or trailing hyphen, no spaces, no accents, no capital letters — it has to work as part of a web address.
- Not already taken by another organization, and not a reserved word — names that could be mistaken for a part of the service itself (
www,admin,demo,docs,billing,supportand the like) or for a country code (de,fr,es, …). The form tells you if a name is reserved — see Reserved names.
The short name is only the address. The name that appears on your documents — the full legal name of the entity — is a separate field that you can change at any time. See Organizations.
Once an organization exists, its short name — and therefore its address — is fixed. Renaming it would break every link that points to the register: the information clauses published to data subjects, the bookmarks of your members, the links in your privacy policy. If you really need a different address, create a new organization with the name you want, export the register from the old one and import it into the new one, then delete the old one.
Moving between your organizations
The organization you are in is the one whose address is in your browser, so the quickest way to switch is to open the other organization's address. Inside the application you can do the same without remembering any address:
- Open the left-hand menu and choose Manage or change organization.
- The list shows every organization you belong to. Pick one and you are taken to its address, already signed in.
The same list is where you create a new organization: choose Create organization, fill in the short name and the details of the legal entity, and you become its first administrator. New organizations start empty, with a trial period, and are private until you decide otherwise. You can then invite colleagues, or import a register you exported elsewhere.
You are a member of the demo organization from the moment you sign up, but only to look around. To try the forms, use your test organization — it is yours to change, and Organization settings → Reset organization data puts the sample data back whenever you want a clean start.
Reserved names
A few short names are not available because they could be mistaken for a part of the service itself or for another kind of web address. The form rejects them as soon as you type one, but here is the gist so you can pick something else from the start.
| Reserved because… | Examples |
|---|---|
| It names a part of the service | about, api, app, billing, blog, docs, help, legal, payments, pricing, privacy, security, status, support, terms, www |
| It sounds like a sign-in or admin page | account, admin, auth, console, dashboard, login, logout, portal, register, signup, sso, system |
| It names an environment or test copy | acme, beta, default, demo, dev, example, free, guest, local, preview, production, public, sandbox, shared, staging, test |
| It is a technical or mail address | assets, cdn, clerk, ftp, mail, media, ns1, smtp, static, vpn |
| It is a two-letter country code | de, fr, es, uk, us, eu — every ISO country code |
| It is a three-letter internet domain | com, net, org, gov, edu, biz, pro, inc, ltd, xyz — and the other three-letter top-level domains |
Anything else that follows the rules above and is not already taken is yours.