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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 IS a public trust!
Posted by Rebecca Stanton at 09.06.02 @ 01.08 PM |
I agree, and I support the IMS bid to operate .org.
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Subject: For profit makes best infrstructure?!?
Posted by Martin White at 09.06.02 @ 01.22 AM |
The Internet was developed by geeks and techs and not by the monopolies who seek to dominate it and rewrite history now.
.org represents the non-profit sites, the charities and the communities. It does not stand for shareholders and pigopolists, it does not stand for suppression and domination.
The way in which the TLD is managed should reflect what stands for.
Let the commercials have the .com and .biz TLD's, these domains have always been for commercial purposes and the way in which they are managed should reflect this.
I see no way in which a commercial entity can support the interests of the .org community or any other not for profit group as its descisions (despite any not for profit element) must be based soley on rpofit margins. The .org must be run in the public interest by a wholey non profit group of techs who are fully accountable and fully transparant to the public which they will serve.
.com for commercials!
.net for the networks!
.org for the PEOPLE!
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Subject: Full support
Posted by Matthew Taylor at 09.06.02 @ 12.24 AM |
After reading through the qualifications for IMS/ISC, I would like to extend my full support to their bid to manage the .org domain. I fully support the idea of the .org TLD being run by a public trust, and these organizations will accomplish that goal.
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Subject: Infrastructure is not commercial
Posted by J Deutch at 09.05.02 @ 10.03 AM |
Many parts of our nation's infrastructure are not run as a competative business: roads, electrical distribution, mail. The interest of the people is best served by regulations which keep these networks running smoothly, on a not-for-profit, or fixed margin profit, basis. ICANN's attemps to turn internet infrastructure into a free market are more likely to hurt the infrastructure than to increase service or reduce cost to consumers. I strongly favor the non-profit bid for the .org domain.
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Subject: .org is best not-for-profit
Posted by Trista Robichaud at 09.05.02 @ 06.23 AM |
It's hard enough to keep non-profit organizations afloat. Let's keep their home on the web safe and well maintained. :)
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Subject: Go for a fairly world !
Posted by Florian Gruber at 09.05.02 @ 12.50 AM |
I fully support the bid and proposal of IMS and ISC to administer the .ORG TLD.
The people involved in this project have great intensions and I hope they will reach their goal it will be a good thing for the community.
The spread between the technology world and the third world will not become smaller by exclude countries from technologies because it would not be profitable to serve that countries or group of persons.
Financial motivation for that reason will lead to unequal treatment of involved parties.
It is very important that this key technique of communication will be controlled by fair non commercial body.
Good luck and fully support by
Florian Gruber
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Subject: .org is not .$$$
Posted by Joseph D'Cruz at 09.04.02 @ 09.28 PM |
I work in the development sector - helping communities in poor countries put together projects and programmes to improve their lives. Many of the IT-related projects we put together have small community websites, and these are almost always .org
That's the kind of thing the .org TLD was MEANT for, NON-PROFIT organisations. If .org is given away to some money-making machine it will soon be just another commercial alias to the dot-coms, and out of reach of the people I work with.
PLEASE DON'T LET THAT HAPPEN!
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Subject: maybe .org could be independent?
Posted by Eric Barlettani at 09.04.02 @ 03.24 PM |
We need more organizing power in this day and age. Look at the way we've got money misappropriated and all this nonsense.
.Org being handled by a non profit sure does support the type of future I am looking for. I run with several non profits that support the arts and I tense up everytime I see a corporation trying to ease into a dominant power-drunk-abusive-father role. The Internet is about exchange of information, collaboration, grandeous universal vision.. not solely green backs (or properly put -- "soullessness").
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Subject: .org TLD
Posted by Chris Dunlap at 09.04.02 @ 01.04 PM |
There is enough Big Brother/Business intervention in our daily lives that we surely do not need yet another inroad for them to start trying to send even more unsoliced crap our way. Like comercials to the television they will destroy the spirit of the .org TLD as they destroy most everything else the profit motive/pleasure principle touches! Stop the spread of this plague NOW!
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Subject: Full Support
Posted by John Morris at 09.04.02 @ 12.51 PM |
I fully support your bid to manage the .org TLD.
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Subject: Power to the people
Posted by Arne Loeining at 09.04.02 @ 12.16 AM |
You fully have my support.. The moneymakers have enough of the web already.
Keep it going
Arne
-Chaosrealist
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Subject: complete support
Posted by nickmatic at 09.03.02 @ 08.05 PM |
I fully support the proposal and hope everyone will do what they can to spread the word. Help keep commercial interests out of .org!
I've put the 'spread the dot' logo on our main product info pages: http://getanagram.com/
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