Hello.
Remember when they send letters and email telling people that had already a
*.COM domain that they can have *.NET and/or *.ORG?????
I have a client that registered the ORG and NET domains because of that.....
JB
At 05:15 p.m. 01/03/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> > Hello bill,
> >
> > Thursday, March 01, 2001, 10:18:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > 2) ICANN wants to restrict .org to non-profits only "a restriction that
> > > hasn't been enforced in recent years" -- actually .org was for *all*
> > > organizations that were not either .commercial or .network
> infrastructure,
> > > for example we registered our family domain in .org my family is not
> > > commercial nor are we network infrastructure but were not non-profit
> > > either! If they enforce "non-profit" only, i.e. you need to have
> > > non-profit tax status, there goes our family domain.
> >
> > This portion needs to be stopped.
>
>Firstly, I seriously doubt they'd be able to do this with *existing*
>domain names, secondly, we still don't know exactly what they mean by
>"non-profit", just yet. Certainly not all countries have the same
>definition...in any case the RFC for .org never mentioned profit status,
>just that it was the appropriate TLD for something that didn't fit into
>.com or .net
>
>Personally, I thought they would have enforced the RFC's for .net first,
>since it actually spelled out what .net should and shouldn't be used for
>much more concisely than .org
>
>James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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