When you say it's "usually used as a common term", that sounds like wishful thinking. It seems you want to take the term back and distance it from The DAO. But

When you say it's "usually used as a common term", that sounds like wishful thinking. It seems you want to take the term back and distance it from The DAO. But new efforts like this won't call themselves "a DAO" anymore than a new airship would be called "a hindenburg".