Tag Archives: .org

Wed 8th September 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Org Prices to Increase in April - Wholesale cost for .org domain registrations increases next year. The wholesale price for registering a .org domain name will increase in April 2011. In a short letter to ICANN dated yesterday, .org registry Public Interest Registry said it will increase the annual price to $7.21 beginning April 1. This does not include ICANN fees. As a point of reference, GoDaddy’s retail price for .org is $14.99 plus the 18 cent ICANN fee each year. So a registrar with a healthy ... read more ...
Tue 17th August 2010
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Org Grows By 7.6% in 1st 6 Months of 2010 To 8.5 Million Domain Names - The .Org registry released its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” today and reported a higher growth rate for .Org domain names for the first six months of 2010, than .com or .net. The .ORG domain grew by 7.6%, more than doubling last year’s first half gain of 3.2%. This increase in registrations has brought .ORG’s total domains under management to 8.5 million. The “Dashboard”  other key findings: .ORG surpassed the growth of the two largest gTLDs — .COM and .NET — ... read more ...
Tue 9th March 2010
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.Org Eyes Leadership Role in IDN Top Level Domain Names - .Org registry PIR wants to bring best practices to IDN top level domain names. One of the big questions facing registries of existing top level domain names is how they should pursue Internationalized Domain Name “equivalents” of their domain names when they become available. These so-called IDN.IDN domain names will be available once new gTLDs — such as .nyc and .music — come out. Last month we learned more about VeriSign’s plans for .com and .net; today ... read more ...
Thu 28th August 2008
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GoDaddy Hikes Price of .Net and .Org Domain Names to $13.19 - You’ve been paying more at the pump. Now you’re paying more at the registrar. I’m not sure when this happened, but a reader pointed out that GoDaddy has hiked prices on .net and .org domain names to $13.19 per domain. That’s a 30% increase. This is probably just a business decision by GoDaddy to maximize profit. It can easily calculate how many .net and .org sales it loses and determine if the price hike is worth it. When I asked GoDaddy about its ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2008
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.Org Domain Hit 7 Million Registrations - Public Interest Registry reports milestone. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry that manages the .org top level domain, announced today that there are now 7 million .org domain names registered. Since management of the registry was assumed by Public Interest Registry in 2003, .org registrations have increased more than 250%, the registry reports As part of the announcement, PIR got Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to comment about .org: “We can’t imagine ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2008
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Two Reminders that .Com is Still King - What a baseball game and radio show remind us about domain names. Last night I watched the Cardinals play the Phillies on ESPN. Play-by-play announcer Jon Miller mentioned a .tv web site (I think it was MLB.tv) and sidekick Joe Morgan chimed in “dot tv? I didn’t know there was a .tv.” Then this morning I was listening to the radio and a guest was promoting a gala her nonprofit was holding this weekend. She told the audience of tens of thousands that they ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2008
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.Org Domain Name Prices to Jump 10% - Public Interest Registry to raise wholesale prices of .org domain names. Public Interest Registry, the registry for .org domain names, has notified ICANN that it is increasing wholesale prices 10%. The annual wholesale price for .org domain name registrations will be $6.75, slightly below the $6.86 rate that .com domains will jump to later this year. The rational for the price increase? None. At least none that was disclosed to ICANN. The rational is purely for ... read more ...