Domain Drama
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Some dramatic stuff is going down right now for a few of the powerful organizations that run the Internet.
Dear Reader,
Some dramatic stuff is going down right now for a few of the powerful organizations that run the Internet. The .org top-level domain, as you probably know, is home to many charities and nonprofit organizations. Traditionally, the price of a .org domain has been kept low to make it affordable for small-time community organizations and charities. But sometime last year, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced a plan to remove the price caps. They put the question up for public comment and received more than 3,000 comments opposing this idea and 6 in favor of it. In spite of the resounding level of disapproval, they went ahead with the plan. A new contract that removed the price caps was announced in July 2019.
Before going on I should expand a few of these nested acronyms: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a nonprofit corporation that contracts with the nonprofit Internet Society (ISOC) for maintaining the .org namespace. ISOC created a nonprofit corporation called the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to manage .org. So PIR was the entity that actually removed the price caps.
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