ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B

Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by thaumasiotes on Saturday November 30, 2019 @01:08AM (#21668826)

As things stand now, .com is basically seen as just a mysterious string that ends URLs in much the same way that "http" begins URLs. It isn't viewed as having any more significance than that. "Just another TLD" is arguably a step up in importance from "invisible part of the background that nobody ever thinks about".

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by bscphil on Saturday November 30, 2019 @02:06AM (#21668937)

> .com is basically seen as just a mysterious string that ends URLs in much the same way that "http" begins URLs.

This is 100% true. And yet, for the average person, it's viewed as the default mysterious string that ends a website's "name". Anything else is viewed as slightly questionable, although most people are aware of .org and .net as sometimes legitimate exceptions. I think most people would be less likely to enter their credit card information on a ".biz" domain, even though they couldn't express any accurate reason why that made it less trustworthy. That's significant, even if it makes no technological difference.

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by eloisant on Saturday November 30, 2019 @05:50AM (#21669445)

Outside US, country tld are also very common.

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:38AM (#21669701)

The same heuristics apply. .<ccTLD> is roughly as trustworthy as .com is; .<class>.<ccTLD> is as trustworthy as .<tld>, where class=tld.

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by bjornjaja on Saturday November 30, 2019 @08:07AM (#21669792)

I think the move to more specific domains is better and .org should be a relic of the past. For instance, consider:

people.org people.health people.art

The last two actually imply what they are about, but the .org could be anything.

Trust and faith in the service associated with a domain needs to be built with standard channels like word of mouth, advertising, good business practices, etc.

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by Nullabillity on Saturday November 30, 2019 @10:18AM (#21670298)

To me an industry-specific TLD just says "We couldn't think of an original name."

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by thaumasiotes on Saturday November 30, 2019 @02:05PM (#21671606)

While that's not inaccurate, I don't think it's a problem. It makes no sense to require everything to have a globally unique name.

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by bjornjaja on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:29AM (#21670606)

Hmm, yeah now that I think about it more I agree.

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by bitslayer on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:36AM (#21669696)

The traditional TLDs, especially .com, are immediately recognizable as www addresses. If you write some_name.com somewhere, just about anyone would know that they could type that into a browser. But some_name.club would not have that effect.

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by WilliamEdward on Saturday November 30, 2019 @04:21AM (#21669239)

Wait, what? Give people more credit, a lot of people know it stands for the commercial domain name and understand the implications of that.

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by geitir on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:16AM (#21669640)

I was under the impression it had Soviet origins

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by julianlam on Saturday November 30, 2019 @10:17AM (#21670296)

Da, comrade.

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by type0 on Saturday November 30, 2019 @12:21PM (#21670985)

Net comrade, my soviet domain names are still valid [1] and free from this private equity capitalism nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su

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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by cdirkx on Saturday November 30, 2019 @06:51AM (#21669576)

A lot of English-speaking people, which isn't everyone.

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