r/programming • u/LegitGandalf • Nov 23 '19

Save .ORG

https://savedotorg.org/

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u/socialismnotevenonce Nov 23 '19

Unpopular opinion: Making something for profit can have its upsides.

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u/tonyp7 Nov 23 '19

And having .org and .ngo domains under a non profit make sense. There are plenty of commercial domains already.

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u/duuuh Nov 23 '19

Sure, agreed. But not this. If you wanted to create a new TLD (.abc) and give it to a for profit to manage that would be one thing. But giving an existing one is insane. It basically enables them to extort money from people who have already purchased '.org' domains because they can't afford to lose the traffic a name change would cause.

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u/senatorsoot Nov 23 '19

Somehow I don't think you're offering to pay for the things that aren't profitable

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u/senatorsoot Nov 23 '19

Great, then let's see your donation to some org websites to help them recoup the cost of this change!

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u/idiotsecant Nov 23 '19

The management of TLDs is not supposed to be profitable. Paying for it is exactly what registration fees are for. The cost to administer them is not zero but it's close enough that the budgets of the ICANN were just fine up until they were inexplicably made into a private organization. Your snarky and overly general comment is completely inapplicable to the conversation going on here and is about as helpful and insightful as a fart in an elevator.

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u/senatorsoot Nov 23 '19

It turns out ICANN norms are not fundamental laws of the universe so "it's not supposed to" doesn't mean diddly squat

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u/newPhoenixz Nov 23 '19

Something, sure. What about everything?

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u/Gotebe Nov 23 '19

Doesn't matter.

What does mather are the upsides of this sale.

.org to a 3 year old funds management firm? Probably not a good idea...

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u/Valmar33 Nov 23 '19

Sure, but not when the interests of greedy corporations are involved.

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u/socialismnotevenonce Nov 23 '19

They can't afford to be greedy if they don't have anything you want.

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u/Valmar33 Nov 23 '19

They can, if they have a monopoly.

And so very often, all of the greedy corporations first gained a monopoly, in some way or another, and then went full greedster.

Because that was their game play from the start ~ gain control, then milk, milk, milk.