As many others have pointed out, more than one RFC explicitly
states that .org is intended as a "Miscellaneous" domain for sites that don't meet
the .com, .net, and .edu criteria. Non-profit organizations are just *one*
example of proper residents of .org.It is completely unacceptable to suggest that
I should be forced to give up my .org domain that I registered in good faith according
to the terms of RFC 1591 and others. It is also completely unacceptable that
at some point I be expected to "Transition" to a new domain, requiring me to hunt
down every person and site to whom I've sent my email address over the years and
inform them of my new contact information.
It is *not* my problem that non-commercial
organizations have been registering in .com, it is *not* my problem that people feel
it or any other domains are being used inappropriately. *I* have registered
my .org domain appropriately and it is criminal to have some backroom dealmaking
unceremoniously take my rightful property away from me. If the domain registrars
want to correct inappropriate domain registrations, then fine, they can do so, but
not at the expense of those of us who registered our domains correctly in the first
place.