[ncdnhc-discuss] About Marketing Practices in .ORG

[Milton Mueller]

>>> Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com> 12/28/01 11:52AM >>>

> The fact is, as you indicate above, that .org has *not* 
> been run as a pure unrestricted TLD until relatively recently.  

What nonsense! 

In Internet time, 1994 is not "recent." 7 years is the whole 
history of the modern, open-to-the-public Internet. Not even 
.com was run as a pure unrestricted TLD until then. 

The fact is that ALL of the growth and development of the
modern Internet has taken place since 1994, with the rise
of the WWW. 99% of all ORG registrations were made
after 1993.

> .org always has had a charter; the only issue is the matter 
> of enforcement.  

No, it has not had a "charter" in the sense that ICANN
uses the term. It has had a RFC vaguely describing it,
written by a networking researcher for a time when the
Internet was limited to about 200 domains under .org.

Not relevant at all. But the "charter" you are referring to 
are RFCs 920 and 1591, which describe it as "miscellaneous"
and a "catch all" as well as nonprofits.