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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This can be good and bad

[Spit_Fire1]

With this decision they will apparently be deciding if and when an actual non-profit organization can have a .org domain(what the top-level domain was designed for) and stop companies from buying .org addrs to go with their net and com ones.

However this also poses a domain squatting and slanderous sites to be able to have domains like microsoft.org for instance(i of course like microsoft as little as the next guy) but if someone owns the site a mistyped url could hurt smaller businesses, and geniune orginzations who should have the .org domains. Hopefully the ICANN will properly saction org domains and not try to hurt people using them now. Or for profit companys who need to use them.

Before you let the party begin

[ebuck]

No more Verisign is something that many will be very, very happy about, but any "big" change in "the way things are done" often hurts before it gets better.

Let's hope that the transition is as painless as possible.

so it's ISOC

[frost22]

you applaud that ?

The ISOC proposal is a shameless money-grab. They are contracting out the actual work to .info operator AFFILIAS (a privately held for profit company owned by - among others - Verisign) while grabbing a part of the revenues for whatever club activities they deem worthy.

This is the very same ISOC that got its bid approved by an evaluation comitee which judged principial Bind developer and internet pioneer Paul Vixie and his coworkers to be technically incompetent to run a registry - ISOC should be ashamed (and refuse) to accept that approval at all !

The whole thing is a farce....

DNS reliability needs

[billstewart]

The average US or EU .COM is certainly willing to spend $6/year for 99.999% reliability. But there are a lot of people in the .org world who might be happier paying a lot less for 99.9% uptime, as long as their names don't get lost. After all, it's not very often that you do a name registration - you care more about DNS availability, and lots of that comes from the root nameservers, or from caches in the big ISPs' nameservers, and while a big concern like ACLU.ORG or EFF.ORG may want better access to the registries, joebobs-home-pc.org doesn't mind that much if people can't do a new DNS resolution for 1.4 minutes/day, as long as it's up most of the time.

The costs of dispute resolution are likely to be much higher than the costs of registry servers - the monthly cost of a couple of hosted machines is less than the cost of a couple hours of lawyer time.