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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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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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"VeriSign will continue to profit from .org as it owns a small interest in the company that will run the back end of the database for the Internet Society."
Do you think Verisign is really out of it? I doubt it if they have a financial stake in the Internet Society's future decisions. I'll be curious how Verisign tries to slowly gain more and more authority in the background.
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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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.
.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.
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
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." -Aristotle Onassis
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...
"It's not stealing if you don't get caught!"
This could be a bad thing considering that their current website (www.isoc.org) is currently slashdotted to death. One would hope that somebody in their purchasing department is actively ordering more bandwidth and servers to handle the long term load.
LongTail SSH Brute Force analysis tool is here!
Now how long before we can get them out of
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.
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.
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.
Does this mean I can repurchase n64.org, the domain which Nintendo so rudely took away from me by sending their lawyers after me, back when I was 15??
you applaud that ?
.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.
The ISOC proposal is a shameless money-grab. They are contracting out the actual work to
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....
...is that the members of the board are not elected. We're always babbling about democracy (or lack of it), and how our congressmen are paid by corporations to do their bidding.
This is already happening with ICANN. Remember the Karl Auerbach incident?
For all we know, this might just be a temporary measure, and that Verisign has already secured a deal which will go into effect in the future.
Just something to think about...
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...
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.
point of information:
slashdot has slashdot.com, slashdot.org, and slashdot.de, and slashdot.jp (in japanese!)
slashdot.net is being squatted by the norwegians
slashdot.info is owned by ZDNet which is offering tech news, arguably profiting off of slashdot's good name.
Travis
From Press Release .INFO top-level domain (TLD), will provide PIR with a full range of back-end registry services to support .ORG.
.INFO?
Afilias Limited, a global domain name registry services provider and current registry operator of the
Uhhh.. didn't Afilias has a boat load of problems when they launched
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
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
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.