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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: We strongly support this bid
Posted by Brett Glass at 06.28.02 @ 04.28 PM |
LARIAT, which in 1994 established the world's first wireless community network, strongly supports the IMS bid for stewardship of the .org TLD.
Past attempts to give stewardship of such TLDs to opportunistic for-profit corporations -- such as the delegation of geographical domains ending in .us to Neustar -- have proven to be unmitigated disasters. (Did you know that delegated .us managers, who manage geographic .us domains as a public service to their communities, cannot fill out a Web form or even send an e-mail to change a server name or address? Believe it or not, Neustar requires them to send a FAX and then wait several days for the records to be updated.)
Invariably, despite any claims of good intentions made prior to the delegations, all of the for-profit corporations who have entered the domain name registration gold rush have been after one thing: money. No non-profit should have to be at the mercy of a large corporate entity which would like nothing better than to profiteer. IMS is the only reasonable choice for .org.
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Subject: Amen
Posted by Sledgewig at 06.28.02 @ 03.51 PM |
Amen, brothers & sisters.
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Subject: This is a brilliant idea...
Posted by Michael Barrish at 06.28.02 @ 03.30 PM |
...which unfortunately means it probably won't happen. But if it did happen, the online world would be a better place.
Here's hoping!
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Subject: .org should be non profit
Posted by Baud at 06.28.02 @ 03.04 PM |
It makes perfectly sense
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Subject: Little to add, but my support
Posted by Stephen Voss at 06.28.02 @ 01.35 PM |
.Org is an important TLD, sometimes reflecting the not for profit spirit of the web. It should be in good hands.
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Subject: Logic over business
Posted by Geoff Elliott at 06.28.02 @ 01.29 PM |
A non-profit organization as .org TLD operator makes sense to me. As it nicely states above, ".org is a public trust" and we don't need another incompetent commercial registrar.
-GE
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Subject: support
Posted by Joseph Alford at 06.28.02 @ 01.25 PM |
I fully support ICANN in it's attempt to free .orgs from the incompetence of these commercial registrars.
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Subject: When I begin to register domains
Posted by Justin Skolnick at 06.28.02 @ 12.39 PM |
I'd like this to be in place.
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Subject: It just makes sense
Posted by Aleks Wukovich at 06.28.02 @ 12.32 PM |
The .org TLD is meant for non-profit bodies, and the IMS/ISC would run it as a non-profit service. It's so logical and just makes so much sense, and I hope whoever chooses the winning bid can see that.
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Subject: As it should be
Posted by michael paige at 06.28.02 @ 11.51 AM |
I'm in full support of the IMS/ISC proposal.
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Subject: Support from potential customer
Posted by Dougal Campbell at 06.28.02 @ 11.22 AM |
As the owner of a couple of .org domain names, myself, I would wholeheartedly welcome IMS/ISC as the administrators of this TLD.
Clearly the right way to go.
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