I registered aircooledmind.org back when the understanding was that .com was for
commercial companies and .net was for ISPs and such. I was (am) not a non-profit
organization, just a guy who wanted a domain for my creative writing and other fun
stuff. There was no TLD for individuals so .org was the best fit. It was InterNIC
that screwed up the system in the first place, giving .coms to non-companies and
non-profits (peta.com?), and handing .nets and .orgs to whoever, willy-nilly, so
that private individuals ability to parody and criticize companies (-sux.org) has
largely been taken away.(Peta.org was used to to parody PETA and peta.com. Why
did they have it in the first place? Then peta.org was taken from their critic and
given to PETA.) (Even vw.net - an ISP - had to hand rights over to VW, the company.)
I have since also acquired a .com - also for writing - because it seemed to be
the only way to be taken seriously.
So now someone wants to fix a small part of
the system, iex post facto/i, by kicking .org-holders off if we aren't registered
as non-profits. The mistakes were made a long time ago and trying to fix it now would
BF a lot of people ... and you still haven't provided a TLD strictly for individuals.
Why? [Could it be because ICANN is nothing but a bunch of corporate lackeys who don't
even remember that individuals might want to use the Net to publish?]
You ought
to be ashamed of yourselves for selling the soul of the Internet to the corporations.
If ICANN continues with this plan, it will look more like clueless morons than it
already does.