Founder

A founder is a person who created a game account during the one-week headstart period immediately prior to DDO's original launch date of February 28, 2006. This also required pre-ordering the game.

Founders are given the "Founder" tag on DDO's official forums if they also created their forum accounts by February 27, 2006 (forum user ID  up to 10128   ) or if they signed onto the forums later but Turbine verifies that their game account is old enough.

The Founder's Commemorative Fountain in The Harbor lists the names and members of all guilds that had at least fifteen members at the end of the headstart period.