Posted by Dan on 09/14/07 00:59

On Sep 12, 2:32 am, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit Dan:
>
> Authoritative information on the applicability of top level domain names to
> various purposes is freely available on the Web. Consult it especially
> before making notes that look like accusations on TLD abuse.

Like RFC 1591?
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1591.txt

COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is
companies. This domain has grown very large and there is
concern about the administrative load and system performance
if
the current growth pattern is continued. Consideration is
being taken to subdivide the COM domain and only allow future
commercial registrations in the subdomains.

ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for
organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-
government organizations may fit here.

So they're saying that their site is both a "commercial entity /
company" and a "organization that didn't fit anywhere else". I guess
"noncommercial" isn't officially part of the description of .org, but
it's implied by the fact that anything commercial belongs in .com, and
anything in .org is supposed to not fit anywhere else.

--
Dan

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