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Public Interest Registry has Sold7 Million .org Domain
2008-09-05
Company announces that it now has 7 million domain names.
The Public Interest Registry, the registry for .org domain names, today
announced that it now has 7 million domain names. The company claims that this
makes it the third largest generic domain ? after ".com" and ".net".
When the Reston, Va.-based Public Interest Registry took over the domain
registry in January 2003, ?.org? registrations totaled 2.6 million names. The
company claims that it has consistently grown 20 percent percent year over year
since then. It attributes growth to growth in social networking, issue
awareness, online collaboration and advocacy groups. It avers that this includes
an increased number of wikis for collaborative content, made popular by
wikipedia.org, online political organizing, blogging and the green movement.
"All kinds of organization use .org, not just the nonprofits of yesterday," said
Alexa Raad, chief executive of the nonprofit registry, which was founded by The
Internet Society. "The most progressive individuals on the internet are trying
to brand ideas on the internet under .org."
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