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Earlier this week I closed on yet another domain sale on the Uniregistry market platform. The agreement was reached last week, but a small glitch caused a short delay with the buyer’s funds at Uniregistry. This single word .ORG domain was registe...
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April 22, 2020 Theo Develegas
.org domains, aged domains, domain offers, Uniregistry Market
The sale of dot .ORG Registry, PIR, by ISOC has now spilled over to Wikipedia. There are now allegations that the ISOC page is being edited by an Internet Society associate, without declaring this conflict. These edits are reversing a recent addition o...
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December 16, 2019 DomainGang
.org domains, coi, Conflict of interest, isoc
Domain Name Wire wrote a fantasy football article today, suggesting that GoDaddy should consider picking up the dot .ORG Registry, as a “white knight.” Setting that impossible scenario aside, as .ORG is not up for grabs in any kind of aucti...
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December 10, 2019 DomainGang
.org domains
The controversy surrounding the timing of the sale of PIR, managers of .ORG, is ongoing. Time will tell whether there was an underlying agenda in how the acquisition of PIR by fresh corp Ethos Capital followed the uncapping of .ORG prices. For now, it ...
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December 4, 2019 DomainGang
.org domains, Ethos Capital
The Girl Scouts of America and the YMCA have joined numerous organizations, protesting the sale of PIR – the Registry for .ORG domains – to Ethos Capital. According to a BBC article, the Internet Society has been sent almost 7,000 letters a...
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November 25, 2019 DomainGang
.org domains, Ethos Capital, Girl Scouts, ymca
PIR, managers of the dot .ORG TLD, have launched a new website, called “Key Points about .ORG.” The web site, at KeyPointsAbout.ORG, contains some new information about its acquisition by for-profit company, Ethos Capital. PIR also confirms...
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November 24, 2019 DomainGang
.org domains, Ethos Capital, KeyPointsAbout.org
The domain Motherisk.org went to auction at DropCatch, where it ended at $6,050 dollars. Motherisk was a clinical and research program at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, providing safety information on exposures in pregnancy...
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August 19, 2019 DomainGang
.org domains, DropCatch, Motherisk, motherisk.org
Very often, we encounter domain names emblazoned on vehicles; we attempt to photograph these “domains in the wild” while we’re stationary. That’s right, we won’t compromise safety in order to produce a photo of these “doma...
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September 30, 2018 DomainGang
.org domains, non-COM, non-com domains, non-COM sightings, OneBlood, OneBlood.org
I’ve been registering .ORG domains since 1999, and have been successfully selling them to private investors and corporations. The dot .ORG extension (TLD) provides a quality layer of authority and legitimacy. It ranks exceptionally well in Google...
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March 28, 2018 Theo Develegas
.org domains
The auction for the dropped domain Soft.org led to a particularly hard bidding battle at DropCatch.com, involving several bidders. As many as 34 bidders acknowledged the dropped domain’s quality, that was originally registered in 2000 but was let...
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February 8, 2018 DomainGang
.org domains, DropCatch, dropped domains, soft.org