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Public Interest Registry has Sold7 Million .org Domain
9-6-2008 |
Company announces that it now has 7 million domain names. |
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The Public Interest Registry, the registry for .org domain names, today
announced that it now has 7 million domain names. The company claims that this
makes it the third largest generic domain — after ".com" and ".net". When
the Reston, Va.-based Public Interest Registry took over the domain registry in
January 2003, “.org” registrations totaled 2.6 million names. The company claims
that it has consistently grown 20 percent percent year over year since then. It
attributes growth to growth in social networking, issue awareness, online
collaboration and advocacy groups. It avers that this includes an increased
number of wikis for collaborative content, made popular by wikipedia.org, online
political organizing, blogging and the green movement. "All kinds of
organization use .org, not just the nonprofits of yesterday," said Alexa Raad,
chief executive of the nonprofit registry, which was founded by The Internet
Society. "The most progressive individuals on the internet are trying to brand
ideas on the internet under .org." Source: www.webhostdir.com | | | | |
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