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I would like to second the comment below. I have not established a server at my .org,
but i do own it, and intend to use it for personal use. I think that it would be
innappropriate to make me jump through legal or administrative use to prove that
i am a non-profit organization. the comment below says it much more eloquently.
thanks,
ryans self-immolation.org
I have serious concerns about new
rules being instated on who can own a .org domain. While I agree in principle
that for-profit ventures should possibly be excluded, those rules have not been enforced
for nearly six years - years of explosive expansion. Many of us have put personal
sites in the org TLD, because they didn't fit well in commercial (which I am
not as a person) or network (nor am I personally a network :). While I do also
hold .com and .net domains, I've started a rather successful .org domain that is
strictly non-profit, but is only informally at best an organization - we're just
a collection of four people who have no official structure or rules, just a concern
for keeping the site operating within its charter. We have no intention of
becoming a non-profit corporation (too much legalwork, paperwork - we have no source
of income off the site and pay for it out of our own pockets), and are offended and
concerned that ICANN would even consider changing the rules in such a way as to possibly
destroy all the work we've done in promoting the thing. Likewise, with domain
squatters overrunning the .com and .net domains, it's often very hard to find an
affordable domain anymore, and .org is still a bit more of an open playing
field for those of us who are not in any way a business or corporate
entity. Contrary to what some would like to believe, private individuals still
do have their own servers/bandwidth/websites/internet services, and some of us really
do just do it because we enjoy it. It's unreasonable to make us all jump through
all sorts of legal hurdles (such as incorporating as a non-profit, which many of
us can't afford) just to keep our domains pointed at websites and other services
we've worked many long hours to build up.
NDHolmes
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