Control of the .ORG TLD

rhwalker22 writes "TechNews.com has an in-depth look at the 11 groups bidding to run dot-org when VeriSign gives it up later this year." I have a sneaking suspicion that my bid of $100 and a case of guinness has been outdone.

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This is about the back end, not the registrars

[Animats]

This is about control of the back end, the common registry database and zone file distribution system. It doesn't affect registration of .ORG domains, which is handled by all the current registrars.

The way this ought to work is with the database is distributed and replicated across all the registrars, with a majority-voting system for forcing consistency. That would eliminate any single point of failure. .ORG would be a good place to deploy such a technology, so that when .COM comes up for renewal, we can get rid of the current single point of control.

MOD

[Jacer]

oh man, mod this up! really come on, most first posts are trolls or annoying but this i laughed my ass off at this

chalk up another blow

[natefaerber]

"Dot-org is important now because it the one space on the Internet that ... has been devoted to noncommercial speech," said Barry Steinhardt, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Technology and Liberty Program. "If it were to be turned into just another dot-com, that would be a blow to speech." (emphasis mine)

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mpaa.org?
riaa.org?

What is 'noncommercial' about that? I guest we can chalk up another 'blow to speech' by the corporations that RUN mpaa and riaa.
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Guiness????

[hellfire]

I'm sorry, but nothing is more valuable than a case of Guinness :)

OSDN Affected?

[FortKnox]

Slashdot and other OSDN sites are considered profitable, right? Owned by publically traded VA Software.

So will slashdot.org become slashdot.com?

What a crock of shit

[dh003i]

ICANN should not be deciding who controls .ORG. They are greedy corporate fucks who just want to make as much money as possible and benefit their corporate buddies. Does anyone really think that there's a chance in hell that ICANN will "award" .ORG to a non-profit organization? No. Its going to go to the corporate interests which can benefit ICANN the most.

What SHOULD happen is that all the current owners of a .org should vote on what organization they want to run the .ORG domains. This way, we have a better chance that whatever organization that controls it will serve the interests of the public, not some corporations interests.

Whoever said that .ORG was noncommercial?

[PCM2]

"Dot-org is important now because it the one space on the Internet that ... has been devoted to noncommercial speech," said Barry Steinhardt, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Technology and Liberty Program. "If it were to be turned into just another dot-com, that would be a blow to speech."

A blow to speech? A little exaggerated, don't you think, considering as how most of the registrars advise you to register all three -- .com, .net, and .org -- whenever you register a domain? That's been common practice since way back.

What is it, exactly, that makes this guy think .org has some lockout on commercial entities? If anything, the tendency for nonprofits to gravitate there seems like a popular custom more than a rule.

I own two .org domains. I don't have any plans to make any money off them ... but why shouldn't I?

Not to be cynical,

[dbrower]

but which proposal promises to kick back funding, er 'help defray expenses of' ICANN? That would be Ability to comply with ICANN-developed policies in the criteria for selection.

-dB