Tag Archives: .org

Mon 22nd February 2016
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A Domainer's Dashboard – DNW Podcast #72 - This service lets you get a handle on your domain name investing business. Can Efty help domain name investors make more money? Co-founder Doron Vermaat explains how Efty creates a dashboard for your domain business, and how it can help you sell more domain names. Also: Berkens’ big payday, Tesla gets Tesla.com, big .org contract out for bid, Rightside’s biz and .Cloud shoots up into the clouds. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your iPhone or iPad, or click play ... read more ...
Thu 18th February 2016
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In Less Than 2 Years, .XYZ Passes 14 Year Old .BIZ to Become 5th Largest Domain Extension - The new gTLD domain name extension, .XYZ is which won’t be two years old until, June of this year, just surpassed the  domain extension .Biz which has been around since 2001 in the number of domain registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com, .XYZ now has 2,369,039 domain name registered which passed .Biz which has 2,305,687 domains registered. In passing .Biz, .XYZ becomes the 5th largest Top Level Domain (TLD) in terms of domain name registrations. Only .com, .net. .org and .info have more ... read more ...
Mon 4th January 2016
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PIR CEO Brian Cute – DNW Podcast #65 - CEO of non-profit that runs .org discusses the past, present and future of domain names. Public Interest Registry is a not-for-profit that operates the popular .Org domain name. CEO Brian Cute explains the unique nature of his registry, as well as its rollout of .Ngo, .Ong and IDN domain names. Cute explains what needs to happen for these new domain names to be successful, and why he believes validation will be key for domain names in the future. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name ... read more ...
Mon 16th November 2015
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Report: All Chinese Premium LLLL.org Domains Registered - I have received a report that all Chinese Premium four letter .org domain names have been registered. Chinese Premium domain names are those without a Vowel or the letter “v” According to registrarstats.com .Org had a net gain of over 12,000 domain registrations on Sunday which is a strong number for a Sunday but many of these were registered today as well. I’m also told that very few Western LLLL.org remain to be registered. For the record I did not register any of them.     ... read more ...
Wed 14th October 2015
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.Org Adds 130K Registrations, Tops 10.5 Million: Registrants In China Own 3.2% - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report “The Dashboard.” The .Org domain name extension, added 130,865 additional registrations over the last 12 months, bringing the total domains under management (DUM) to 10,547,247. Other findings outlined in The Dashboard include: .org registrations in international markets demonstrate steady growth, particularly in Asia where China has 3.2 percent ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2015
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Quick Poll: What Will Be The High Bid On Health.Org - Earlier today we posted about a Godaddy.com expired domain name auction underway for health.org. The auction still has over 9 days to go as of publication. Assuming the domain auction does not get called off because the owner renews the domain name we opened a poll question to ask “What Will High Bid Be For The Domain .Health.org?” The poll is located on the right about half way down the page. For bragging rights you can also put you’re actual prediction in the comments beow With bidding at ... read more ...
 
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Health.Org Tops $141,000 In Bidding In Expired Domain GoDaddy.com Auction - .Health.org is in an expired domain name auction at GoDaddy.com and bidding has topped $141,000 with over 9 days to go. According to the stats shown on the GoDaddy auction page, the 22 year old domain is estimated to get almost 7,000 visitors a month. Arguably the domain name Health.org is one of the top 5 best possible and most valuable .org domain names. As of publication there are only 17 active bidders on the domain, but the only way to become an active bidder is to top the current high bid ... read more ...
Fri 9th October 2015
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Company Re-Brands From .Com To .XYZ Purchased For $5,700 -   A company which re-branded to a .Com in March, from a .Org, has purchased an .XYZ domain name from a domainer and re-branded to an .XYZ domain name. According to its site, “Engage, is a division of INHS, is one of the largest MEDITECH hosting partners in the United States. With 20 years of extensive MEDITECH experience, Engage provides a wide range of infrastructure solutions including hardware refresh, virtualization, data migration, data center migration and implementation. Engage leverages ... read more ...
Fri 10th July 2015
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Happy Birthday .Org Turns 30 Today: Happy30th.org Launches to Celebrate - Today marks 30 years since the first .org domain name, mitre.org, was registered. .Org now has over 10.5 million domain names registered making .org  the world’s third-most reg generic top-level domain. Public Interest Registry, The nonprofit operator of .Org,  launched happy30th.org, where users can explore notable .org websites through an interactive timeline and discover how these websites and organizations have changed throughout the past 30 years. Brian Cute, CEO of Public Interest Registry ... read more ...
Thu 2nd July 2015
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.Org Wholesale Price To Top $9 At The End of July - I just received a notice from enom.com informing me that the wholesale cost of that the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Registry Operator for the .ORG domain, will be increasing its annual registration price by $0.80 USD. As a result of this, eNom will raise pricing for the .ORG domain name extension by $0.80 USD on July 31st. The last price increase by the .Org registry was in 2013 to $8.25. Therefore with this increase the wholesale cost of a .Org domain name will rise to $9.05. The wholesale ... read more ...
Tue 5th May 2015
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.NGO/.ONG Launches Today For Non-Profits: New gTLD's Done Right: Here is What You Need To Know - The Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .Org domain name extension, is launching .NGO and .ONG today into general availability for Non-profit, non governmental organizations. The new gTLD domain name extension go live at 8pm EST tonight to be registered on a first come, first served basis. I had a chance to chat with Dave Stewart VP, Sales and Marketing of PIR about these two new extensions. .NGO and .ONG are being sold together meaning you get both extensions for one price., which ... read more ...
 
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Carly Didn't Fail To Secure CarlyFiorina.org She let it drop - There has been a fair amount of press that the new GOP candidate and former CEO of HP,  Carly Fiorina “failed to secure” her matching name with the .org domain name CarlyFiorina.org but here are the facts! Carly DID own the domain name CarlyFiorina.org Carly Fiorina Enterprises (which she is CEO and Chair of) according to Wikipedia owned the domain name since at least March 3, 2008 according to whois history records. The domain was actually registered on June 23, 2006 and whois history records ... read more ...
Mon 4th May 2015
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.Org Opens Nominations For 7 To Serve On The .Org Advisory Council - Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit operator of the .org domain, today opened the call for nominations to identify seven new members to serve on the .org Advisory Council. Today through June 5, 2015, individuals may submit nominations – including self-nominations – detailing the applicant’s experience in leading a noncommercial organization, commitment to promoting the noncommercial use of the Internet and desire to ensure .org remains the domain of choice for any person, corporation or ... read more ...
Tue 31st March 2015
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.Org Domains Rose 1.3% in 2014 - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report “The Dashboard,” detailing the worldwide growth of .org in 2014. The report reveals that the number of .org domain names registered in 2014 rose 1.3 percent, bringing the total domains under management (DUM) to more than 10,500,000 worldwide. Other findings outlined in “The Dashboard” include: Registrations in international markets continue to experience ... read more ...
Sat 31st January 2015
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Jazz At Lincoln Center Acquires & Re-brands To Jazz.org & Some Fans Are Not Happy - Thejazzline.com, reports that the organization that operates Jazz at Lincoln Center, recently aand re-branded the organization to Jazz.org from it former address, jalc.org which is owned and operated under since it started in the early 2000’s Although the story does not say how much the organization paid for the domain, it says that the domain was recently  appraised for $40,000 (Estibot.com has the value at $43,000) Although the story says the organization recently acquired the domain Jazz.org, ... read more ...
Mon 29th December 2014
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Interesting motive for a city changing the domain name - City cites credibility for switching from .org to .gov. The Town of West Hartford recently changed its domain name from a .org to a .gov, and I found its rationale for doing so rather interesting. Here’s a news brief from West Hartford News: This month, the Town of West Hartford changed its domain name from westhartford.org to westhartfordct.gov. The .gov domain offers a higher level of scrutiny that only federal, state and local governments are allowed to use. ... read more ...
Tue 23rd December 2014
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Md.Org Lawsuit Withdrawn: Domain Is Transferred - In April of 2013 Namejet.comm along with the Seller of the domain Privacy LLC, (Privacy), filed a lawsuit against several parties for non-payment of the winning bid. Ownership of the domain name MD.org transferred yesterday to Ari Goldberger, ESQwire.com PC Domain Attorney Trust Account I reached out to Namejet.com for comment who told me that “the lawsuit has been withdrawn and the parties are all satisfied with the outcome.” I reached out to the other parties involved and didn’t get any ... read more ...
 
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PIR (.Org Registry) Offers New IDN Domains In Three Strings - According to a press release  Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain registry, today announced the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari, one in Cyrillic, and one in simplified Chinese. Previously only available to qualified domain trademark holders, all interested companies, organisations and individuals can now ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2014
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UK Charity “Homeless International” With an annual bill £20 million Rebrands To An .XYZ -           Homeless International a .UK based charity with an annual budget £20 million announced they havere-branded from Homeless-International.org to Reall.xyz The NGO has been around since 1989 “focusing on urban poverty issues (including slums and social housing) in the developing world” The charity has its own Wikipedia.org page Here is some info from the press release: “Since 2010, our annual budget to accelerate sustainable housing development in Africa and Asia has increased ... read more ...
Fri 12th September 2014
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March Of Dimes Switches Its Website Domain From .Com to .Org - According to a press release out today The March of Dimes has switched its domain name from Marchofdimes.com to Marchofdimes.org. If your wondering who owned the .Org before it was Rehabilitation Foundation for the Disabled in Toronto which owns the domain name Marchofdimes.ca It appears that the March Of Dimes acquired the .org back in March of this year. MarchofDimes.com is now being redirected to the Marchofdimes.org. Of course since the March of Dimes owns both the .com and .org there won’t ... read more ...
Wed 27th August 2014
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PIR: .Org Grows 1.4%; Renewal Rate of Almost 74%; 6% Are Asian Registrants - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain , today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the worldwide growth of .org over the past year. The report reveals that in the past twelve months the total number of .org domains under management increased to 10,428,027 globally, a 1.4%increase in registrations since 2013. Other findings outlined in “The Dashboard” include the following: Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, ... read more ...
Tue 1st July 2014
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PIR Names Ex-Verisign VP Dave Stewart VP Of Sales And Marketing For .Org/.Ngo/.Ong - Public Interest Registry (PIR), the not-for-profit operator of the .org, named former Verisign VP, Dave Stewart As Vice President Of Sales And Marketing Industry for .org and .ngo, .ong Most recently, Mr. Stewart served as vice president for strategic partnerships at Verisign where he was responsible for account management, channel marketing and business development. During his 10 years at Verisign, he helped champion the .com and .net brands across a global distribution channel of over 900 partners ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2014
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PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General Availability Today - “The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.संगठन), one in Cyrillic (.орг), and one in simplified Chinese (.机构). “The launch of these international domain names allows us to continue expanding upon our ongoing mission of making the Internet a global, ... read more ...
Sun 23rd March 2014
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PIR Lists Four Reasons Why to Register a .NGO - Public Interest Registry (PIR) the operator of the .org extension is out with a list of reasons to register a .ngo/ong new gtld. In May 2012, Public Interest Registry formally submitted its applications to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the .ngo and .ong domain extensions as part of the organisation’s global Internet expansion initiative. Along with .ngo/.ong, Public Interest Registry also applied for the creation and management of four internationalized domain ... read more ...
Mon 10th March 2014
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Photos: Domain.com SXSW Party & .CO HQ - Here are photos from Domain.com’s party in Austin Saturday night and the .CO HQ. Domain.com threw a party in conjunction with Public Interest Registry (PIR) Saturday night in Austin at the SXSW festival. A steady cold rain didn’t keep people away. In fact, it may have drawn them to the relative comfort and warmth of dancing in a tent. For the second year in a row the party featured 80s cover band The Spazmatics. Drinks included “The Domain Fire” and the “Refresh-ORG”. On ... read more ...