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<p>Sorry! I made a typo in my last message in the sentence : "The
number of .org domains remains stable since <font color="#ff0000">2003
</font>between 10 and 11 millions and no surge has been shown when
the restriction to non-profit has been released in august 2019
(source <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.org">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.org</a>). "<br>
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<p>I meant to write 2013 instead of 2003. This does not change
anything to the point I wanted to make.</p>
<p>I will quote the 2 sentences I referred from the wikipedia page:</p>
<p>1) <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">"The domain
was originally intended for non-profit entities, but this
restriction was removed in August 2019.<span> "<br>
</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span>2) </span></span><span
style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34,
34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform:
none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
float: none;">"The number of registered domains in org has
increased from fewer than one million in the 1990s, to ten
million in 2012, and held steady between ten and eleven
million since then."</span></span></span></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/05/2020 05:17, Daniel Pimienta
via Governance wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:f60d9c8d-8b8e-e84d-24a2-1e8a90f0cbe5@funredes.org">
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">About all one can say is that there exist
some small number of actual
<br>
public benefit organizations probably amounting to fewer than 1%
of
<br>
registrations, probably far fewer, who have chosen .ORG for
their
<br>
branding.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
If this is meant to say that probably far more than 99% of .org
domains are related to for profit entities this is a fake stats
only created to sustain an argument which falls down when the data
is checked. One wishes some source were provided to sustain the
data or at least some methods to reach that results one could
evaluate.
<br>
<br>
The facts are :
<br>
<br>
- The number of .org domains remains stable since 2003 between 10
and 11 millions and no surge has been shown when the restriction
to non-profit has been released in august 2019 (source
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.org">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.org</a>).
<br>
<br>
- If anybody knows about some study surveying the percentage of
for profit within those 11 millions domain it would be nice to
share.
<br>
<br>
Meanwhile :
<br>
<br>
- There are many sites analyzing the pros and cons for businesses
(specially small) to decide between .com or .org and they
generally shows no special incentive for .org (except maybe to
forward a mybusiness.org towards mybusiness.com) and at the
contrary warns about the harmful confusion for good business.
Check <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=.org+vs+.com">https://www.google.com/search?q=.org+vs+.com</a>
<br>
<br>
- One could play with search engine using the site:.org option and
browse fast the results: if really only 1% would be non profit it
would show clearly in the displayed results. To make it still more
clear one can use keywords prone to business such as business,
sale, buy and discovers that less than 10% correspond to for
profit. Check <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=buy+site:.org">https://www.google.com/search?q=buy+site:.org</a> and so
on. One could use still more specific searches with keywords such
as bank or restaurant within .org and less than 20% of the results
correspond to for profit for "restaurant" and maybe less than 40%
for banks (which seems to have adopted more massively the trick of
forwarding from .org to .com main site). Check
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=bank+site:.org">https://www.google.com/search?q=bank+site:.org</a>
<br>
<br>
- As a by-product of those experiments, the rich diversity of the
ecosystem of the non for profit realm in the Internet appears :
international, national and local organizations, associations,
free software providers, education entities, users group,... which
advocates naturally to preserve this important (and historical)
ecosystem of the Internet.
<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
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