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.ORG Surpasses 8.5 Million Domains

By James Koole on August 23rd, 2010
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The latest edition of the bi-annual .org domain name report, “The Dashboard,” is now available.

Public Internet Registry (PIR), the operator of the .org domain extension released the report, which showed 7.6% growth in the .org domain in the first half of 2010. That’s twice the growth compared to 2009 and signals continued strength in the .org extension.

Some other figures of interest:

  • The growth of .org in the first half of 2010 outpaced both .com and .net over the same period.
  • New creates for .org showed 16.5% growth, on par with both .com and .net.
  • 77.1% of organizations renewed their .org domains for one to three years, an increase of 4% over 2009.
  • North America and the European Union continued to represent the regions with the most .org registrations. China showed growth of 4% in the first half of 2010.

With over 8.5 million .org domains registered, .org is the third largest generic top-level domain (gTLD), behind .com and .net.

You can always download the latest version of the “The Dashboard” from PIR’s website at http://pir.org/news/dashboard

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The Registries: .ORG

By OpenSRS Team on June 2nd, 2009
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Editor’s note: OpenSRS offers 25 different top-level domains (TLDs) for our resellers. This is the second post in a series intended to share information about the wide range of TLDs and to introduce you to some of the available resources that the various Registries provide.

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Probably the most familiar .ORG domain on the web today is wikipedia.org. This gTLD was created in 1984 as one of the Internet’s original top-level domains, and has wide-ranging use including open source projects (drupal.org), sports groups (www.specialolympics.org), advocacy (www.kiva.org) and causes (www.cbcf.org). As the third largest gTLD, it is used worldwide, connecting smaller pockets of communities and giving them collective global reach. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .ORG registry operator since 2003, has embraced social media to support organizations in a wide variety of ways including their YouTube Channel and World Voices events program. Your customers will find all types of videos highlighting the various uses of .ORG. Check out the video below.

.ORG Quick Facts

  • There are more than 7 million .ORG domains around the world.
  • It is the third largest gTLD behind .COM and .NET.
  • PIR (Public Interest Registry) is the registry operator.
  • Anyone can buy this gTLD.
  • They were the official sponsor for the 13th Annual Webby Awards.
  • PIR is actively promoting implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for their TLD and signed their zone on June 2, 2009.

The Many Uses of .ORG

Available Resources:
Registries offer a wide range of resources for Resellers. Here are some of the key links you can use to learn more about .ORG:

.ORG Promotion:
Our .ORG promotion started on June 1st and continues until July 31, 2009. There’s more information on the promotion page.

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.ORG and .UK both reach 7 million names

By OpenSRS Team on August 29th, 2008
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This week Nominet, the .UK domain name registry, announced they’d passed the seven million mark with the registration of the name tootsdrivingschool.co.uk. From the Nominet news release, “this registration marks significant growth in the registry – an extra one million domain names since July 2007.”

Earlier this week, The Public Interest Registry, the registry behind the global .ORG domain name, announced that more than 7 million domain names are now registered as .ORG. This makes it the third largest generic domain (after .com and .net).

Both registries hit 7 million in the same week and both registries are undertaking marketing activities to drive more registrations. On the .ORG side, they are hoping to extend their traditional non-profit base to attract new registrants to .ORG. Specifically, they are addressing a growing audience of community sites, sites for colloborative content, online political organizing, the “green” movement and empowered citizens looking to further passions or causes. Nominet is executing a .UK renewal awareness campaign “to raise renewal rates by encouraging registrants to think about the value of their domain name and to use their registrar for all aspects of domain maintenance and renewal.” You can take a look at their campaign site at http://www.keepyour.co.uk.

Both .ORG and .UK are available as part of the OpenSRS Domains Service.

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