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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. Re:My .org by bmwm3nut · · Score: 1, Redundant

    from the article:

    " While the domain will be marketed to nonprofits, others will not be prohibited from registering .org names."

  2. umm by cshor · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Thanks to this being slashdotted after almost 10 minutes, I'm left wondering what this means for my domain. I'm not officially a non-profit, but I sure as hell don't make any money off of my crappy domain, so what does this mean for me? What sort of power do these folks have?

    Shouldn't slashdot be a little nicer to them then killing their server? :)

  3. Re:My .org by edrugtrader · · Score: 0, Redundant

    .com .org .net domain's were ALL originally free to have...

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