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The Internet Society Will Manage .org
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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In the article it points out that you will still be able to use your domain even if you are commercial.
.org names."
" While the domain will be marketed to nonprofits, others will not be prohibited from registering
HTH
Traditionally the .org domain was for individuals and non-profits. This of course changed in the late 90's. Actually if memory serves me right, .org websites domains were originally free to have. .org websites, then it would be a problem I would think (if the rules change)
As you currently own the domains, you shouldn't have to worry about any changes in the domaim management system. My guess is that you would be grandfathered in. If for some reason you let your registration lapse, or if you decided that you wanted NEW
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more from me...
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if you read the second paragraph in the article and follow the first link Section 5 then you may find more answers.
I think parts of the site may be suffering mildly from the
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Google's cache of the second link.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Actually, all domains were originally free to have. I think NSF used to reimburse NSI for the cost of each one. I remember back in the good ol days of domain squatting (when it cost nothing to squat because no one knew about it), the guy who had knotsberryfarm.com traded it to them for a couple of jars of jelly. Which really makes more sense then sending out rabid droves of lawyers. I mean if I had a domain that someone wanted they could be like "here, we'll give you a brand spanking new dual g4 if you give up the domain". It saves money on both sides. Of course, that's only if they had a legitimate claim on the domain. I'm not that much of a whore.
My Slashdot account is old enough to drink...
espo
slashdot.info is NOT in fact owned by Z-D, but by Nathaniel Wilkerson of Orem, UT. The web server randomly picks other internet sites to masquerade as. When I went, it was E! Online, a couple more refreshes later, it was CNet, and on to a few other sites. Very interesting. I know the UDRP is against slashdot's religion, but, no time like the present to get the name back from someone who's clearly using it in bad faith.
The registries don't need to deal with DNS requests. They send all their info to the GTLD nameserver maintainers on a daily basis, and let THEM deal with the DNS traffic. If ISOC is a non-profit organization, it shouldn't surprise anyone that they have only a finite amount of bandwidth and/or server resources, and we all know how much traffic slashdot is capable of inducing.
So it seems that those of us who sell PostgreSQL to client will have an easy answer for whether or not it can scale.
talli
As they already do for .info. This is cool because the bid was head-to-head against contractors spec'ing Oracle and came despite Oracle submitting comments during the review process that claimed that no Open Source RDBMS would be up to the task.
washingtonpost.com's story on the dot-org decision is online here.