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The Non-Profit .Org Registry Works Behind the Scenes (Video)
ICANN.org says, "The DotOrg Foundation [update: Note that the organization is now known as the Public Interest Registry], along with its operating partners, is committed to stable, efficient and affordable management of the .org registry." Most of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about the Internet's basic "plumbing," and few spend much time thinking about .org and the group that is responsible for maintaining it. That group did, however, have a booth at SXSW. That's where Timothy Lord interviewed .org spokesperson Thuy LeDinh, who was happy to explain what the .org people do and why they do it.
So part of this expansion that I was talking about with 2000 new domain names coming is .ngo. It is a term that most Americans don’t know. But if you work in the non-profit non-governmental, you actually would have heard of NGO, which stands for non-government organizations.
Indeed -- for the lay man not briefed into this kind of world, the distinction between an NGO and an NPO is highly irrelevant. I think the addition of the .ngo TLD is a solution looking for a problem.
I thought after we collectively eviscerated Ted Stevens for his "series of tubes" comment that the internet clearly had no tubes at all. This plumbing thing must be a typo.
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They never listen to anyone else, so listening to them seems shortsighted. We have seen that they will ultimately favor whatever decision pays them the best, regardless of what consequences it may have on the rest of the internet. Likely this bit from them is nothing more than self promotion released in the hope of making themselves look like they give a shit about anyone.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I am currently bidding on .orgy as a TLD :)
Silence is a state of mime.
Ted Stevens eviscerated Ted Stevens.
He should have stuck to bringing home pork. He didn't get to be the longest-serving Republican senator because he was bad at his job. Sarah Palin on the other hand... ...yeah okay maybe there's a pattern here.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
Oh dear the submitter seems to brought into the idea that .org is *only* for not for profits (and defend in the narrow USA only way) .org is for anything that didn't fit into the other TLD's - you want to ask Jamie Zawinski to hand back jwz.org?
.org registry failed when thy tried to exclude organizations like the red cross and oxfam from having .org as they are not nonprofits in the US sense and promptly got there ass handed to them.
.coop and also bid for .org so i know something of the shenanigans that goes on at ICANT.
One of the front runners to run the
Disclaimer I used to work for poptel who built
I always wondered, with the switch from being a little discussion forum in the early days, when Slashdot would go .com and give up the .org domain name. It seems, like the man in the video said, that this sort of thing works itself out organically though.
Slashdot.com works just fine. Try it.
It'd be more awesome if the post was funny. +2 for style! The bolding, italicizing, and font changes are all spot-on, but the content is difficult to parse.
And I was looking forward to a good APK troll... and now sadly disappointed.
What's the relationship between Public Internet Registry & Verisign? I checked the address of PIR, they're just down the street from Verisign.
Verisign is already a private company which essentially controls the majority of DNS (.com and .net). What is it with these northern Virginia companies that produce nothing, but just suck down cash?
When will this stuff be LEGITIMATELY open for competition? Sure, the .com contract goes up for renewal every ~7 years, but let's face it, the fix is already in. It's Verisign's to lose.
Disgusting.