The Electronic Frontier Foundation published an article today after participating in a public forum today The forum was part of ICANN’s winter meeting. Elliot Harmon and Mitch Stoltz stated that ICANN did not answer any of their questions today. Ethos Capital is out there trying to ease some of the fears by forming a stewardship council but many see it as empty. From the article: Ethos … [Read more...]
PIR Releases 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report: 92% of NGO’s Have a Website
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains and Nonprofit Tech for Good today revealed the results of the “2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report.” The second annual report uncovers how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use web, email and mobile communications, online fundraising tools, and social media. The report details the key … [Read more...]
Call for nominations for PIR Board of Directors
Dan York of the Internet Society let us know that PIR is seeking nominations for their board of directors. Three positions are open this year on the board of the nonprofit organization behind .ORG/.NGO/.ONG. The deadline is this Sunday, December 11. https://www.internetsociety.org/call-nominations-pir-board-directors … [Read more...]
.Org Adds 130K Registrations, Tops 10.5 Million: Registrants In China Own 3.2%
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report "The Dashboard." The .Org domain name extension, added 130,865 additional registrations over the last 12 months, bringing the total domains under management (DUM) to 10,547,247. Other findings outlined in The Dashboard include: .org … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday .Org Turns 30 Today: Happy30th.org Launches to Celebrate
Today marks 30 years since the first .org domain name, mitre.org, was registered. .Org now has over 10.5 million domain names registered making .org the world’s third-most reg generic top-level domain. Public Interest Registry, The nonprofit operator of .Org, launched happy30th.org, where users can explore notable .org websites through an interactive timeline and discover how these … [Read more...]
.NGO/.ONG Launches Today For Non-Profits: New gTLD’s Done Right: Here is What You Need To Know
The Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .Org domain name extension, is launching .NGO and .ONG today into general availability for Non-profit, non governmental organizations. The new gTLD domain name extension go live at 8pm EST tonight to be registered on a first come, first served basis. I had a chance to chat with Dave Stewart VP, Sales and Marketing of PIR about these two … [Read more...]
PIR (.Org Registry) Offers New IDN Domains In Three Strings
According to a press release Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain registry, today announced the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari, one in Cyrillic, and one in simplified Chinese. Previously only available to qualified … [Read more...]