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The Internet Society Will Manage .org

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the formerly-known-as dept.

ahpeterson writes "The ICANN board just decided to hand control of the .org domain over to the Internet Society. You can read more about their bid here. Whee, no more VeriSign in .org!"

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  1. no more reminders? by whoppo · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... with VeriSign out of the .org biz, who will send me "domain renewal" reminders 11 months before my .org domains are due to expire?

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    1. Re:no more reminders? by whoppo · · Score: 5, Funny

      But VeriSign is kind enough to send me reminders for ALL of my domains.. even the ones registered elsewhere.. They're so nice :)

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    2. Re:no more reminders? by ibennetch · · Score: 2, Funny

      From what I hear, I'm sure VeriSign will be happy to continue to send you reminders even though you're registered elsewhere.

  2. Yay, the evil spreads! by HackHackBoom · · Score: 5, Funny

    ICANN is like the US Government: Give it jurisdiction over something and it appoints a commity to discuss the feasability of appointing a subcommity to plan the eventual migration to a senate panel on how to properly disperse the powers to multiple groups and organizations that should control the board that appoints the group.....

    I love America...

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    "It's not stealing if you don't get caught!"

  3. Great... by Tadrith · · Score: 4, Funny


    Now how long before we can get them out of .com and .net as well? :P

  4. why the exclamation mark? by I+Want+GNU! · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't quite understand this. Why does the article sound so upbeat and happy? In this article, user timothy writes "mesozoic points out that ISOC is a non-profit organization composed of many for-profit heavyweights, writing "ICANN has issued a report recommending that ISOC run the .org TLD... ISOC is a non-profit organization composed of many for-profit heavyweights, writing "I'm not surprised; are you?" This preliminary report may be disappointing to those who hoped that Paul Vixie and Carl Malamud would be successful in their bid to head up .org."

    Slashdot, I never would have expected doublespeak from you! *sniff* I trusted you.

  5. Re:My .org by scott1853 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess the real question would be what is the definition of non-profit:

    Those that are committed to strictly working at cost

    Or, those that can only make enough to break even depsite how often they run banners for Visual Studio.

  6. iwon.com ? by Eric+Seppanen · · Score: 3, Funny
    That link just ruined my day. I had been assuming that the dotcom crash took those idiots down. How is it possible that iwon.com is still in business?

    Obligatory Moronic Business Plan:

    1. Pay users to visit our site
    2. Profit!
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  7. Anyone else? by Dwedit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else misread this story as "The Internet Society Will Manage .OGG"?

  8. Re:slashdot.info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Little known fact: Kevin Bacon owns both OSDN and ZDNet.

  9. Time to fix isoc.org then? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe it's time for ISOC to fix their own domain isoc.org then? Two lame delegations out of three leaves only one nameserver. Not the good example they should provide I guess...

    $ host -C isoc.org

    isoc.org NS NS.ISI.EDU
    www.isoc.org admin.www.isoc.org (2002062813 10800 3600 604800 86400)
    *** isoc.org SOA record at NS.ISI.EDU is not authoritative
    isoc.org has lame delegation to NS.ISI.EDU
    !!! isoc.org SOA primary www.isoc.org is not advertised via NS
    isoc.org NS INFO.isoc.org
    www.isoc.org admin.www.isoc.org (2002062813 10800 3600 604800 86400)
    isoc.org NS NS.UU.NET
    isoc.org SOA record currently not present at NS.UU.NET
    isoc.org has lame delegation to NS.UU.NET