TLD .org - Revision history

Jsummers at 20:50, 4 March 2017

2017-03-04T20:50:22Z

Dan Tobias at 19:00, 8 October 2016

2016-10-08T19:00:06Z

Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo | name = TLD .org | formattype = electronic | subcat = Top-level domain | subcat2 = | subcat3 ..."

2016-10-08T17:37:51Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo | name = TLD .org | formattype = electronic | subcat = Top-level domain | subcat2 = | subcat3 ..."

New page

{{FormatInfo
| name = TLD .org
| formattype = electronic
| subcat = Top-level domain
| subcat2 =
| subcat3 =
| subcat4 =
| subcat5 =
| thiscat =
| extensions =
| mimetypes =
| locfdd =
| fourccs =
| pronom =
| type code =
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| released = 1985
| image =
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The top-level domain .org was one of the original TLDs listed in RFC 920 and RFC 1591. It was originally intended for organizations not falling into the other domain categories, which made it basically the intended domain of noncommercial nongovernmental organizations. It thus picked up an image of being connected with nonprofit activities such as charities and open-source software projects. In the 1996 U.S. elections, many campaign sites were in .org domains, since candidate committees are not-for-profit, but since then most such things (and many other things that technically belong in .org) have tended to use [[TLD .com|.com]] domains instead because the public tends to be more familiar with them.

For a long time, its registry was the same as that of [[TLD .com|.com]] and [[TLD .net|.net]], but it was eventually separated out to Public Interest Registry (PIR), which later also began operating the new [[TLD .ngo|.ngo]] and [[TLD .ong|.ong]] domains as well. Their marketing angle is to promote domains for charitable and other noncommercial uses, though registration of .org remains unrestricted in use.

==External link==
* [[wikipedia:.org]]
* [http://pir.org/ Official registry site]

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 | name                   = TLD .org
 | formattype             = electronic
-| subcat                 = Top-level domain
+| subcat                 = Internet
-| subcat2                =
+| subcat2                = Top-level domain
 | subcat3                =
 | subcat4                =

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 | caption                =
 }}
-The top-level domain .org was one of the original TLDs listed in RFC 920 and RFC 1591. It was originally intended for organizations not falling into the other domain categories, which made it basically the intended domain of noncommercial nongovernmental organizations. It thus picked up an image of being connected with nonprofit activities such as charities and open-source software projects. In the 1996 U.S. elections, many campaign sites were in .org domains, since candidate committees are not-for-profit, but since then most such things (and many other things that technically belong in .org) have tended to use [[TLD .com|.com]] domains instead because the public tends to be more familiar with them.
+The top-level domain '''.org''' was one of the original TLDs listed in RFC 920 and RFC 1591. It was originally intended for organizations not falling into the other domain categories, which made it basically the intended domain of noncommercial nongovernmental organizations. It thus picked up an image of being connected with nonprofit activities such as charities and open-source software projects. In the 1996 U.S. elections, many campaign sites were in .org domains, since candidate committees are not-for-profit, but since then most such things (and many other things that technically belong in .org) have tended to use [[TLD .com|.com]] domains instead because the public tends to be more familiar with them.
 For a long time, its registry was the same as that of [[TLD .com|.com]] and [[TLD .net|.net]], but it was eventually separated out to Public Interest Registry (PIR), which later also began operating the new [[TLD .ngo|.ngo]] and [[TLD .ong|.ong]] domains as well. Their marketing angle is to promote domains for charitable and other noncommercial uses, though registration of .org remains unrestricted in use.