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I wish there was a TLD that was regulated such that only a legitimate not for profit organization could have it, similar to .edu. Change having a .org TLD is in
by tabeth 9y ago
I wish there was a TLD that was regulated such that only a legitimate not for profit organization could have it, similar to .edu. Change having a .org TLD is incredibly misleading. It's not a non-profit, and no, B corporations do not count.
- blahbwah777 9y agoI too get annoyed when people don't abide by history as I know it. Then realize it's a silly thing to waste focus on and move along.
- eli 9y agoI think you just described .ngo, though I've never actually seen one in the wild.
- dragonwriter 9y ago.ngo/.ong doesn't require official non-profit status, it just (in that dimension, there are requirements in other dimensions) requires an organization to be non-profit-focussed.
- eli 9y agoI don't understand the difference. You mean like a C-Corp might technically qualify if they happen to be focused on the public interest and not generating profits? As a global TLD it surely makes more sense to look at what an organization actually does than just blindly go by what the local tax authority thinks.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Change having a .org TLD is incredibly misleading. It's not a non-profit, Even when there was a notional nonprofit requirement for .org, it was never enforced, and it hasn't actually existed for some time. It's only misleading to people who impute a meaning to .org that it does not claim and had never actually had.
- tabeth 9y agoI think people are intentionally misleading by using a .org though. Otherwise, why not do a .com? Clearly they believe and/or know there's some sort of "social" aspect to it.
- r3bl 9y agoOh, you mean like academia.edu, which, even though it's a company, got an .edu domain?