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

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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