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In June 2002, The Internet Multicasting Service and the Internet Software Consortium teamed up to submit a proposal to ICANN to become the .org TLD operator.
At the end of the bidding process, the following 632 comments of support were accounted for at our web site.
In addition to these comments, 389 supporters added a little blue dot to their web sites. Of course,
Googilla kept tracking the dot long after the final tally.
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Subject: .org belongs to orgs...makes sense doesn't it?
Posted by James B at 06.27.02 @ 07.48 PM |
The way it should be.
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Subject: I support
Posted by Tyler Rick at 06.27.02 @ 07.25 PM |
I'd much rather have .org in the hands of volunteers than any for-profit company.
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Subject: IMS/ISC is the best group for the job
Posted by Ralph Brandi at 06.27.02 @ 07.19 PM |
Carl Malamud has a long history of doing excellent work for the public good on the net, whether making public filings by corporations available to all or simply running the first site on the web for Santa Claus. His altruism vis-a-vis the web is unquestionable. There's no question that the people associated with this bid have the technical chops to pull it off. I believe that placing the .org TLD in the hands of IMS/ISC is the best possible move ICANN could make.
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Subject: Support for Trusted Resource ICANN registry bid.
Posted by John Hornstein at 06.27.02 @ 03.06 PM |
I fully support the Trusted Resource bid, to be the .org TLD operator, and I urge ICANN to approve their bid. As the president of a Not-for-Profit Organization and a web designer for www.thenorthview.org, I feel that it is essential, for the sake of all .org initiatives, that this service be in the hands of a web competent and experienced .org organization which will truly understand the special requirements of the .org designation on the web. Clearly, Trusted Resources qualifies as this organization.
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Subject: This is a good thing
Posted by Joe Chellman at 06.27.02 @ 02.01 PM |
I would love to see this proposal succeed. I hope the ICANN will see fit to do it.
No TLD should be entrusted to a for-profit corporation. For others it may be too late, but here's the chance to get it right at least once.
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Subject: Give it up
Posted by paul at 06.27.02 @ 12.52 PM |
Give it up and give it over to conscientiousness
instead of greed.
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Subject: I strongly endorse the ims/isc bid to run the .org tld
Posted by Tavis Rudd at 06.27.02 @ 12.27 PM |
I agree with all that's been said thus far and don't have anything new to add except my support.
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Subject: Go guys.
Posted by Spike Spencer at 06.27.02 @ 11.21 AM |
Keep it up; its for the good of the web.
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Subject: It's about time
Posted by Nick Finck at 06.27.02 @ 10.54 AM |
It's about time that a non-corporate non-profit be placed in charge of the ever abused .org TLDs. It's about time that ICANN started listening to the general public concern of corrupt registrars and bad business practices. I can think of no better group to control .org than a non-profit org of like-minded people itself.
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Subject: here here
Posted by jake harvey at 06.27.02 @ 10.23 AM |
I agree that this should be done by an organizations such as this. Good luck!
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Subject: I say, run all TLDs this way
Posted by David Menendez at 06.27.02 @ 09.41 AM |
I'm fully in support of the IMS/ISC proposal. Trying to make a profit by registering names will inevitably lead to stupidity or worse.
Imagine if registering personal names were run by a for-profit corporation.
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