A chart from the company's bi-annual Dashboard report illustrates .ORG growth
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – The Public Interest Registry (www.pir.org) announced on Wednesday that it now has more than nine million .ORG domain name registrations.
According to the press release, .ORG grew 10.3 percent in 2010, making it the world’s third largest generic Top Level Domain.
“Hitting the 9 million registration mark is a testament to both .ORG’s reputation and its impact within the Internet community,” Brian Cute, CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry said in a statement. “.ORG remains a community-driven platform and has become the domain of choice for organizations, individuals, and companies to channel their passion toward a shared purpose with their community.”
Cute was appointed to CEO in January.
Founded in 1985, .ORG is “the trusted domain of choice for a vast range of non-profits, associations, international corporations involved in cause marketing, open source software developers and art communities.”
The Public Interest Registry is based in Reston, Virginia and was founded by the Internet Society in 2002.
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