.ORG, The Public Interest Registry today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,
According to the report,.ORG registrations grew by 10.1% compared to a year ago, and 4% in the first six months of 2011.
There are now over 9 million .Org registrations In 2005 there were only 3.9 million registrations.
Other key findings from the “Dashboard” reveal the following:
- .ORG reached 9.2 million registrations by the end of June, which indicated a net gain of over 350,000 registrations for the first half of 2011.
- During the first half of 2011, new .ORG registrations increased by 14.6 percent while the average blended rate of renewal (the average of one, two and three or more years) was 75.8 percent.
- The U.S. and European Union (EU) continue to represent the regions with the most significant .ORG registrations, with Italy and Japan entering the top 10 list of markets for the first half of 2011.
There were only 3.9 million registrations in 2005.
the sale of bedbugs.org for $21,400 (maybe, for a non profit organization that wants to save the bedbugs from extinction) has cancelled all doubts about the value of the .org domains 🙂
.org is popular.
I believe .org is and has been the most underrated extension for years. Many people still think of it as #3 and behind .net, which it still is in registrations, but Quantcast for instance shows far more .org than .net in its top 2 million sites (based on US data) and in other areas as well, it is ultimately more common to see than .net. Not EVERY kind of domain works with .org but many domains fit .org so well that their value becomes much more than a tiny fraction of the .com.
Check out what your .ORG taxes paid for this year – besides a $600,000 CEO
http:// www. isoc. org/isoc/reports/ar2010/ISOCAR10-4.pdf
Check out what your .ORG taxes paid for this year – besides a $600,000 CEO
http:// www. isoc. org/isoc/reports/ar2010/ISOCAR10-4.pdf
Ironic, .ORG is mostly responsible for keeping new TLD Competition OUT (away from their cash cows) yet they claim they protect the Open and Transparent Internet for anyone to use
maybe they do not intend for others to become insiders like them ?