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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: I can't wait
Posted by Paul Schreiber at 06.26.02 @ 11.40 PM |
As someone who has managed dozens of domains with a handfull of registrars, I look forward to seeing IMS/ISC manage the .org namespace.
It's important that someone who truly understands what the Internet is about be allowed to run the system.
More comments at Metafilter...
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Subject: Put like with like
Posted by Donimo at 06.26.02 @ 11.09 PM |
The .org TLD belongs to the non-profit world community. Ideally the registry would be managed by a non-profit group with proven experience achieving worthy ideals by working smart.
There is no better canidate than the IMS / ISC team.
And what Daniel said . . .
You guys rock and we support you, hands ON!
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Subject: .org-anise it. 
Posted by waferbaby at 06.26.02 @ 10.42 PM |
put the power back in the right hands, and let the inept fuckers move to the side and become so much rotting landfill.
Any endorsement by Mark Howells and Jeffrey Zeldman is good enough for me.
As a producer of independent web content, I wish to add my voice to this cause. It is clearly the correct choice.
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Subject: Here here!
Posted by Jay Goldman at 06.26.02 @ 08.55 PM |
The .org domain should be the responsibility of the general public and I wholly endorse IMS's proposal to be the guardians.
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Subject: Safe keeping a public trust...
Posted by webb boy at 06.26.02 @ 08.34 PM |
Where would the world be without volunteers? It would behoove everyone for .org to remain as free and open as possible.
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Subject: make .org true
Posted by Ana Guardia at 06.26.02 @ 07.49 PM |
in order to have domain names mean anything
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Subject: dot org must remain free of dot com
Posted by heretic at 06.26.02 @ 05.56 PM |
the only appropriate people to manage dot-org are people who are doing it non-profit. otherwise the entire concept is at the mercy of the profit-driven world from which dot-org tries to remain independent.
you have my full support, for what it's worth! :)
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Subject: About time!
Posted by Stv. at 06.26.02 @ 04.43 PM |
I've long thought it time to hand back .org to the non-profit world. It's been shown time and time again that the for-profits dont' have the public's best interest at heart, so why not let a public trust maintain the domain that is for n-p's (and other similar groups) be run by a public trust?
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Subject: Another vote of support
Posted by Meryl at 06.26.02 @ 04.29 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: A very important choice
Posted by Lachlan Cannon at 06.26.02 @ 04.16 PM |
It's very important to choose the right people to run the .org TLD. A non-profit is the best logical choice to run a domain name so closely tied to the independant community, and in fact is the best logical choice to run a TLD at all. A non-profit is devoted to making the service the best possible, since that is what they exist for, rather than for the purpose of making a profit. A non-profit running the service will give an attention to service which would be missed by a corporation which ran the TLD purely for profit.
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