The main obstacle to owning land on the Moon, or indeed any other celestial body, used to be that there was no legal system of property law, or indeed any law, on the Moon and thus no rights of ownership could be created. No right of ownership can be established without a legal system of property ownership in place. And for such a legal system to be put in place you need a properly functioning government.

The Kingdom of Tycho(TKoT) solves this problem, at least for the Moon, by establishing a legal system of land ownership under the government of the Sovereign of The Kingdom of Tycho. You can now legally buy, sell, claim and register your Lunar real estate.

However when most people ask “Can I Legally Own Land on the Moon?” they mean will the legal system of their country of residence recognize their ownership of land on the Moon and the short answer to that is “No”. But this is not really much different from the situation that exists with established, recognized countries. If you wish to own land in France, for instance, you go through the French legal system to buy that land. You don’t ask the government of one country for a title deed to land in the territory of another country. And similarly if you want to sell or mortgage your land, or if there is a dispute over ownership etc., you go through the legal system of the country where the land is, not the legal system of the country where you happen to live. Different countries have different laws regarding the ownership of land and the rights and obligations about what you can and can not do with your land.

What can happen is that the courts of one country can acknowledge the ownership of property in another country as part of a legal settlement between parties, say in apportioning assets under a divorce settlement. However this is not legally giving title to the property merely acknowledging that it exists.

The Kingdom of Tycho has no recognition from any existing Earth based country so the legal titles given by The Kingdom of Tycho are unlikely to be upheld by any other country’s legal system. So at the moment obtaining a title deed from The Kingdom of Tycho is no guarantee that the legal system of your country will recognize your ownership of your Lunar real estate. Owning or claiming land on the Moon is very much a speculative activity. And as with all gambling do not gamble more than you can afford to lose, no matter how much you might support our goal of space settlement.

As part of my commercial development I am venturing into the area of online commerce, In had started the BlogAbout network A Network of Blogs about various themes that I think I can make money from. With new sites such as Blog About Perfume, Blog About Dating and Blog Stop Smoking With EASE.

It is my plan that these blogs will provide me with a full time income from part time work so allowing me more free time to devote to developing TKoT.

Gold said that the great irony of space is that the technology has never been the limiting factor. “It’s a matter of politics. It’s a matter of financing. And those two challenges are much, much worse than any engineering issue that will arise.”

This is something that I have long believed. We have had the technology to go to the moon, and hence the ability to settle the moon, for forty years. The only limiting factors have been the cost and the will to do it.

With that thought in mind I have, despite the fact that it is now the first week in February, I have decided to continue my new year’s resolution of making the TKoT website a commercial, money making, project. And so I am changing the design of the site to include Google Adsense ads. Not because I think that Adsense ads will provide enough money to finance TKoT’s plans to settle the moon, but because they are relatively easy to implement and they are a start.