Tag Archives: .org

Wed 19th February 2014
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.Org Adds 206K Registrations; Up 2.6% in 2013; 85% Of Registrants Renew For 3 Years Or More - PIR, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG Top Level domain name extension, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the increased growth of .ORG throughout 2013. The report reveals that 206,542 new .ORG domains were registered from January to December 2013, bringing the total number of .ORG domains under registration (DUM) to more than 10,346,000 globally. Other findings outlined in “The Dashboard” include the following: · The number ... read more ...
Mon 14th October 2013
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.ORG Launches Website Makeover Contest - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, today announced the launch of its . as part of an ongoing effort to empower nonprofit organizations and groups to effectively advance their causes online. Today through November 8, Public Interest Registry is accepting nominations from leaders and representatives of organizations and nonprofits for a chance to win a newly designed .ORG website from OmniStudio, a Washington, D.C.-based firm specialized in web design and consulting ... read more ...
Wed 4th September 2013
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Killer Domain Tv.Org Dropping Tomorrow; BSF.com In Auction Already - A couple of Dropping domains worth noting. A truly great domain name is on the drop list for tomorrow, Tv.Org The domain was owned by TSL of Panama which seemed to have acquired the domain in 2009. The original registrant of the domain seems to be the late Igal Lichtman who owned the domain back in 2004 then it went under privacy until 2007 where is showed  NetrinoUK Limited  of London as the Registrant. The domain went back under privacy until 2009 when the domain transferred to  Brooke Viner ... read more ...
 
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.Org Registrations adult 13.6% in 1st Half of 2013 to 10.3 Million - 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 international and domestic growth of .ORG from January to July 2013. Specifically, the report revealed that new .ORG registrations increased by 13.6 percent in the first half of 2013. Other findings from “The Dashboard” include: .ORG has reached 10.3 million domains under management (DUM) representing a net gain of ... read more ...
Tue 27th August 2013
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ICANN Approves Renewal Of .Info; .Org and .Biz Registry Contracts Without URS Being Included - According to a resolution passed by the ICANN Board,  ICANN has renewed the registry contracts for the .info, .biz and .org contracts without the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) being included. On the issue of not requiring the URS to be added to the registry contracts ICANN said: “”There was a specific community concern raised, and subsequent letters provided to the Board, regarding the inclusion of a requirement for the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) to be included in the renewed agreement, ... read more ...
Wed 21st August 2013
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Internet.org Acquired By Zuckberberg From Domain Investor After He Owned It For Just One Month - Domain name investor Daniel Thralow may have made one of the great flips of all time on the domain name Internet.org which Facebook Founder Mark Zuckberberg announced last night was the name of  his project to bring the Internet to the 5 billion people who don’t have access. The domain was sold by Andrew Rosener of Media Options Inc in July who just acquired it back in April. The domain was listed in MediaOptions.com newsletter back on April 24th for a listed price of $75,000 who said at the time: “”Today ... read more ...
 
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Facebook’s Zuckberberg Plans To Connect The World Using Internet.Org; Owned By Andrew Rosener Until July - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late Tuesday announced on his Facebook  page, the formation of a partnership with Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Qualcomm  Ericsson, MediaTek and Opera to develop joint projects, share knowledge, and mobilize industry and governments to bring the world online,and to  make Internet access available to everyone on Earth. The group is rolling this program out under the domain name Internet.org. The domain name Internet.org was owned until recently by Andrew Rosener of Media ... read more ...
Mon 25th March 2013
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With 3 days to go, TS.org leads 1-2 impression .org auction during $2,475 - Go Daddy’s auction of one and two character .org domain names ends on Thursday, and plenty of the lower priced domains are seeing action. Go Daddy’s .org auction is part of Public Interest Registry’s Project 94. Up to 94 one and two character .org domains will be allocated.[Update: the auction has been extended until April 4.] As of the time of posting, TS.org has the highest bid at $2,475 with 5 bidders and 16 bids. Other two character domains, including b3.org, ... read more ...
Mon 18th March 2013
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Will SXSW 2014 be famous as a year of a domain? - SXSW 2013 attracted a handful of domain companies, and I expect more next year. .Co founder Juan Diego Calle on stage with Steve Case.SXSW 2013 is over, and what an event it was. The Interactive portion drew over 30,000 official attendees. Add in the “shadow” (i.e. unpaid) attendance, and it probably topped 40,000 people. SXSW Interactive attracts developers, tech startups, app companies, graphic designers, and other people who like to wear thick rimmed glasses. It’s ... read more ...
Wed 13th March 2013
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Sedo Sells Medicine.Org For $75,000 - The domain name Medicine.Org for $75,000 on Sedo tonight. The domain was sold after the Sedo weekly report was issued and therefore not included. The domain has an original registration date of 1995. The domain was sold by Eric Shannon of LatPro, Inc. who seems to have owned the domain since late 2006. Congrats to the buyer and seller Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 18th February 2013
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Approval To Bid On 1 & 2 Character .Org Domains At Godaddy.com Opens Today - Go Daddy will be auctioning off  42 rare, valuable one- and two-character .org registry owned domain names as part of Project 94. However the registry,  Public Interest Registry (PIR) set aside these .org domain names for registrants who embody its core values. Starting today, if you want to participate in the auction, you can request approval on the .org Event Auction page. We recommend requesting approval before the auction begins on March 18, 2013. The last day to request approval is March 25, ... read more ...
Thu 10th January 2013
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.Org indiscriminate cost to boost to $8.25 - .Org gets pricier. .Com prices may be fixed for the next six years, but that’s not stopping other registries from increasing prices. Public Interest Registry has informed ICANN that it will increase the wholesale cost of a .org domain name to $8.25 on July 1, 2013. It sent a letter to ICANN on Christmas Eve that was just published yesterday. Apparently I (and ICANN) are a bit late on this news, but that’s what happens when you slip a notice in over the holidays. A ... read more ...
Fri 12th October 2012
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Poll: How most will 1 and 2 minute .org domains sell for? - What will domains sell for at auction? This week Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that runs .org, announced auctions for 85 one and two character .org domain names. The domains will be auctioned through Go Daddy and eNom in what the company dubs “Project94″. Although basically anyone can bid on the domains, PIR’s pitch to ICANN to release the short domains said that bidders will have to be “committed to building out the domain name with a sound marketing ... read more ...
Wed 10th October 2012
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Godaddy & Enom To Sell 94 One & Two Character .ORG Registry Owned Domain Names - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, today announced the release of 94 previously unregistered one- to two- character .ORG addresses, Through a partnership with GoDaddy and eNom, the initiative – called “Project94” – gives organizations the unprecedented opportunity to enhance their brand with one of the shortest and perhaps most memorable domain names available. These domains also carry the inherent trust and reliability for which the .ORG domain is known. What’s ... read more ...
Wed 11th July 2012
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.Org Passes 10 Million Domain Names Milestone - According to a press release tonight the .Org registry has passed the 10 Million domain name mark. PIR “the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain announced tonight that it has reached a major milestone with the registration of its 10 millionth .ORG domain name: JADFORUM.ORG, which was registered on June 24, 2012 with Go Daddy. ” “The domain name was registered by the Jordan River and Dead Sea Basin Forum (JAD), an organization dedicated to advancing the sustainable and regional development ... read more ...
Thu 31st May 2012
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PIR Operator of .Org, Applies For Four New gTLD’s IDN of .Org and For .Ngo & .Ong - PIR,  the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, announced today it has applied for the creation and management of four internationalized domain names (IDNs) recognized as .ORG in non-Latin-based scripts and for the new gTLD’s of .Ngo and Ong “As part of its application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), PIR submitted for the generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that translate “organization,” “org” or “structured organization” into Devanagari, Cyrillic ... read more ...
Wed 15th February 2012
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.Org Releases 6 Month Report “The Dashboard” Registrations Grow 10%: Renewals during Over 75% - .ORG operated by The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” for the second half of 2011 Overall, .ORG registrations grew by 9.9% in 2011, reaching 9.6 million total domains under management by the end of 2011, a net gain of 411,002 for the second half of the year. “The Dashboard” also revealed that: The renewal rate of existing .ORG websites for the second half of 2011 was 75.4%.  (its interesting to note that is over ... read more ...
Thu 29th December 2011
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Arizona Bar Rules Lawyers Can Use .Org’s - Wow talk about being a little behind the times. According to a story in  azcentral.com, the state bar of Arizona has just issued an opinion allowing attorney’s in the state to use .org domain names. Yes up to now attorney’s in Arizona have been prohibited from using .org domain names in their practice. “”The ethics panel a decade ago ruled that firms that have websites must set them up with a “.com” suffix. That was based on the conclusion that a for-profit law firm’s use of the “.org” ... read more ...
Wed 28th September 2011
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Shorter .Org Domain Names May Be On The Way - Public Interest Registry asks for permission to allocate one and two character .org domain names. .Org domain name registry Public Interest Registry is asking (pdf) ICANN to allow it to allocate certain one and two character .org domain names. PIR’s contract with ICANN currently prohibits registering these short .org domain names. PIR wants to allocate any such domains excluding ones that correspond to a country code. There’s a model for releasing these domains ... read more ...
Thu 15th September 2011
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PIR Survey Says .Org Trusted, But Let’s Look during a Numbers - .Org is more trusted by the public. Public Interest Registry released the results of a 1,000 person survey today about trust and top level domain names. Not surprisingly, .org was named the “most “trusted” site for information” more often than other top level domain names. If a company or organization were to publish identical information across .org, .com, .info, and .net, 41% named .org as most trusted and 22% .com. 25% said they trust all domains equally. That ... read more ...
Fri 2nd September 2011
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.ORG Registry Joins Godaddy In NASCAR Sponsorship - According to a Press Release,  .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) has teamed up with Godaddy to sponsor a NASCAR car owned by  JR Motorsports and driven by Jamie McMurray. “In conjunction with GoDaddy.com, .ORG advertisements will run on McMurray’s No. 7 car during the following NASCAR races:” – Sunday, September 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET in Atlanta, Ga. – Sunday, October 2 at 2:00 p.m. ET in Dover, Del.” “Next to the .ORG logo on the No. 7 car, we are calling on the NASCAR community ... read more ...
Mon 15th August 2011
Mon 11th April 2011
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.Org Registry Wavies Renewal Fees For Japanese Domain Name Holders - In light of the recent disasters that have devastated Japan, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced a plan to waive renewal fees for Japanese domain name holders who are unable to renew their .ORG domain names. Together with PIR, more than 15 participating Registrars have committed to automatically renew for one year at no cost the .ORG domain names that would unintentionally expire due to the inability of the owner in Japan to re-up their registration.  Affected names will include ... read more ...
Wed 2nd March 2011
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.Org Passes 9 Million Mark - The Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced today that .ORG has now surpassed over 9 million domain name registrations. .Org registrations grew at 10.3% in 2010. “Hitting the 9 million registration mark is a testament to both .ORG’s reputation and its impact within the Internet community,” said Brian Cute, CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry. “.ORG remains a community-driven platform and has become the domain of choice for organizations, individuals, and companies to channel their ... read more ...
Mon 14th February 2011
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.Org Grows Over 10% To Over 8.8 Million Registrations - .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the growth of the world’s third largest generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD). According to the report, the .ORG domain grew by 10.3% in 2010. ORG has over 8.8 million domains under management, which is a  net gain of 824,559 .ORG registrations in 2010. Other key findings from the latest “Dashboard” report reveal the following: In five years, .ORG’s domains ... read more ...