[NCUC-DISCUSS] org turns 30

Fri Jul 10 17:11:58 CEST 2015

Thank a lot Bill.
I'm following Grace ... ;-)
Cheers !
-Olévié-


2015-07-10 16:02 GMT+01:00 Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>:

> Thanks Bill.
> I am sharing this with my networks.
>
> Rgds
> Grace
>
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> From: william.drake at uzh.ch
> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:52:43 +0200
> To: ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org
> Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] org turns 30
>
>
> Hi
>
> As you may know there’s a longstanding relationship between the Public
> Interest Registry and NCUC…inter alia, their financial support is the
> reason we are able to have a Travel Support Policy, and I represent NCUC on
> their Advisory Council.  So it seems appropriate to pass along the below
> press release about .org turning 30.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
> *.org Domain Turns 30  Public Interest Registry celebrates 30-year legacy
> of .org as a trusted online home for passions and causes *RESTON, Va. –
> July – Today marks 30 years since the first .org domain name – mitre.org –
> was registered, launching what has grown to become the
> world’s third-largest generic top-level domain and the domain of choice for
> bringing people together around a shared cause. To commemorate the 30-year
> legacy of .org, Public Interest Registry – the nonprofit operator of .org,
> .ngo and .ong – launched www.happy30th.org, where users can explore
> notable .org websites through an interactive timeline and discover how
> these websites and organizations have changed throughout the past 30 years.
>
>
> “Thirty years and more than 10.5 million registrants later, the .organd
> much more, causes that live on .org bring incalculable benefits to our
> communities, our society and our shared planet. We look forward to many
> more years of giving organizations of all kinds a trusted online home for
> building communities and working towards a common cause.”
>
> The .org domain is almost as old as the Internet itself, which has
> forever giving, cultural institutions to spread word of their traditions,
> and global communities to breakdown boundaries and come together online.
>
> For example, when Japan was struck by a devastating tsunami, when
> ajapansociety.org, ifrc.org, and globalgiving.org respectively to
> take action. Other notable .orgs from the past 30 years include:
> ·       WordPress debuted wordpress.org on May 27, 2003 and it has grown
> to become the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used
> on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
> ·       The Wikimedia Foundation introduced open-source database
> wikipedia.org on January 13, 2001, and today it offers free educational
> content in 284 languages as one of the top 10 most trafficked sites
> globally.
> ·       The Nature Conservancy has operated nature.org since May 15, 1996
> where it communicates efforts to preserve lands and waters in more than 35
> countries worldwide.
> ·       UNICEF launched unicef.org on March 10, 1993 where it promotes
> the wellbeing of children in 190 countries and territories. On February 9,
> 2015, UNICEF launched 7.org in support of its initiative, 7: The David
> Beckham UNICEF Fund, to protect millions of children around the world from
> danger.
> ·       As the very first .org registrant on July 10, 1985, The MITRE
> Corporation (mitre.org) continues to work with the U.S. government
> to research and develop expanded uses of technologies to solve problems.
>
> “MITRE played a pivotal role in managing the systems of domains in theto
> be the first registrant. We believe that being part of the .org domain has
> done much to reinforce MITRE’s identity as an organization that works in
> the public interest. It’s amazing to see how large, global and diverse this
> community has become and the impact .org has had for so many causes.”
>
> “Since January 15, 2001, our website, CreativeCommons.org, has been
> integral to our daily work, allowing millions of creators to license their
> works to build a global Commons of creativity and knowledge – nearly one
> billion w Creative Commons. “Like the .org domain itself, Creative Commons
> aims to serve the public good. We’re committed to keeping the Internet
> creative, free and open, and to making it easy for people to collaborate
> and share their creative works.”
>
>
> For more information about Public Interest Registry, please visit
> www.pir.org. To learn more about .org’s growth and composition, download
> the latest bi-annual “Dashboard” report at www.pir.org/dashboard. For
> 30 interesting facts about .org and the Internet from the past 30 years,
> visit www.pir.org/30-org-and-internet-facts.
>
>
> About Public Interest Registry
> Public Interest Registry is a nonprofit organisation that operates
> thethe Internet more effectively, and to take a leadership position among
> Internet stakeholders on policy and other issues relating to the domain
> naming system. Public Interest Registry was founded by the Internet
> Society (internetsociety.org) in 2002 and is based in Reston, Virginia,
> USA.
>
>
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> William J. Drake
> International Fellow & Lecturer
>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
> william.drake at uzh.ch (direct), wjdrake at gmail.com (lists),
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