The next Internet landgrab: dot-orgs
The domain extension long associated with non-profits -- .org -- is about to ring up some big bucks.
Public Interest Registry (PIR), the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain extension, has teamed up with registrars Go Daddy and eNom to auction off 94 perviously unregistered one- and two-character .org addresses. PIR CEO Brian Cute says that the proceeds from the initiative -- called Project94 -- will go "to enhance the open development and security of the Internet, particularly in technologically underserved regions of the world."
Where exactly the money will go, he said, will be determined by how … Read more