A satirical article about domain names jokes about demoting .org to a “dwarf domain”.
Need a break from your Thursday afternoon? Click on over to TheSpoof.com for a humorous article poking fun at the recent decision to demote Pluto from its major planetary status:
CERN, SWITZERLAND — An uproar took place in the digital world when the Internet Engineering Task Force demoted .ORG sites to the status of “dwarf domain” at its sixty-sixth official meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. IETF chairman Brian Carpenter read aloud the resolution and asked for a show of hands. The resolution passed by what Carpenter described as “a slim but decisive margin.”
The historic vote by the IETF ended years of controversy after cyber-squatters called for more top-level identifiers such as “.XXX” and “.GEO”. The move threatened to add another 250 million entries to the Domain Name System (DNS).
According to the new definition, a “domain” is (1) anything on the Internet that’s massive enough to hire a professional webmaster; (2) that has a purpose of its own and is not a satellite of some other domain; and (3) that routinely clears stale content from its website…
Adam says
This is helpful Andrew. I have been wondering where things were going with the .org domain suffix. It’s always had this mythical quality, according to most forums. I never totally bought that though. Interesting piece. Thanks for the link.