Comments on: Client-chasing dot-orgs https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/03/client-chasing-dot-orgs/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:18:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: David Schwartz https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/03/client-chasing-dot-orgs/comment-page-1/#comment-11382 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:18:01 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=6025#comment-11382 While .org was once reserved for non-profit organizations, it is not a gTLD (generic top level domain) just like .com and .net. Anyone can get a .org domain for any reason.

Basically, non-profits need to get a .com domain anyway to protect their name and prevent people looking for them from finding other companies. So it didn’t seem fair to prohibit the same protection for for-profit organizations.

]]> By: AZFlyer https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/03/client-chasing-dot-orgs/comment-page-1/#comment-11381 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:13:22 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=6025#comment-11381 “And what’s with the law firms’ having managed to secure dot-org domains for these ventures, just as if they were nonprofit or something?”

Pretty much anyone can get a .org domain. It is recommended that .org be used for non-profit organizations, but no one actually enforces it. Replace the .com with .org on most large corporate sites and you’ll get the same company (i.e. http://www.microsoft.org/).

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