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I trusted that some committee somewhere was trying to make an honest go of it with this Internet thing [1]. With the selling of ORG, I lost some trust in the administration of the domain name system. Most people already knew anyone could register a .org domain. That really wasn't the point.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc920



That RFC never went into effect. Perhaps it is a good thing that the illusion of .org trust has been shattered for many.


I don't think I know anybody non-technical (and not that many technical people either) that has any idea what these ".com", ".net", ".org" things are or that they can mean different things.

Most people don't even know that there was an illusion that's supposed to be shattered


That RFC hasn't been in effect, unfortunately, since the Internet became mainstream.




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