.ORG Domain General FAQ Generic FAQ - What is a domain name registry? A registrar? A registrant?
- A registry maintains the authoritative, master database of domain names for a top-level domain (TLD) such as .ORG. The registry ensures that each domain name is unique. The registry also generates a "zone" file, which allows computers to route Internet traffic to and from .ORG domain names around the world. PIR is the registry for the .ORG TLD.
Registries do not accept domain name registrations directly from the public. Instead, the registry receives domain name registration requests from registrars (101Domain), the "retailers" that register domain names on behalf of registrants. Registrants are people or organizations that would like to register and use a domain name (you).
- I found a .ORG Web site that is commercial in nature. Is this allowed?
- Yes. .ORG is an unrestricted top-level domain, and anyone can register.
- Why isn't .ORG strictly limited to not-for-profits?
- .ORG has been an open and unrestricted domain since it was created in the 1980s. It would be difficult, expensive and sometimes unfair to impose new restrictions. For example:
* It would be difficult to determine what is a not-for-profit and what isn't. Every country has different laws and definitions about what a nonprofit is.
* Verifying the site and credentials of every applicant around the world could multiply the cost and time for registering a .ORG domain name. Verification would require many staff people who read different languages and would slow down the registration process from minutes to weeks or months.
* Because .ORG has been unrestricted for so long, it would be unfair to take domain names away from people who registered them under old requirements.
- How many .ORG domain names are there?
- More than seven million .ORG domain names are currently registered. This does not include subdomains created by other TLDs, such as .org.uk and .org.au, which are not registered with or managed by the registry.
- What are Internationalized Domain Names?
- Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are domain/host names that are represented with native language, non-ASCII characters. The native language domain name is followed by the top-level domain (TLD), such as .ORG. An example of an IDN is: mller.org.
- When will .ORG IDNs be available?
- .ORG German script IDN registrations have been available since 15 January, 2005 and.ORG Danish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean (Hangul), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish script IDN registrations have been available since 23 July 2005. .ORG Spanish language script IDN registrations are now available as well on a first-come, first-served basis.
Source: www.pir.org
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