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> What does "reserved" mean? Anyone can buy a .org. There isn't any actual restriction. Fair point. The "restriction" was really a recommendation (from RFC 92
by philsnow 7y ago
> What does "reserved" mean? Anyone can buy a .org. There isn't any actual restriction.
Fair point. The "restriction" was really a recommendation (from RFC 920 in 1985, in a more polite time on the nascent "internet").
> [...] Should they be allowed a .org?
Who cares? The cat is out of the bag. As of today there are 1514 TLDs [0]. .mil and .gov should still have some requirements, but .org, .net, .com (and almost all the other TLDs) are all effectively the same thing.
[0] http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/ http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/
- EvanAnderson 7y agoWhat "recommendation" are you referring to from RFC 920? All I see is: ORG = Organization, any other domains meeting the second level requirements. I see nothing about not-for-profit or money mentioned at all in RFC 920. There are occurrences of the word "commercial", but they're all in reference to the COM domain. The ORG domain is only referred-to as being for "Organizations".