Re: new domain names

So if I understand this correctly, .ORG is a tax exempt organization, .COM
is a commercial business and EDU is for a college school or university, NET
is for a network and GOV is for government.
What's left for the rest of us?

howardm


----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Tom Polk <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: new domain names


> > As to .org, where would anyone EVER draw the line. Certainly I think my
> > Radio Control model airplane club is an organization. In fact, just what
IS
> > an organization?? To the Republicans and Democrats, each may consider
their
> > own party to be .gov and the other's party to be .com. (or worse)
But--they
> > are both pretty well organized.
>
> The original intent of the .org suffix was that it be for not-for-profit
> organizations.
>
> In the USA, for instance, an entity recognized by the IRS as a 503(c)
> tax-exempt organization, and registered under the Charitable
> Solicitation Act with the Attorney General's Office would qualify for an
> .org suffix.
>
> The aforementioned Radio Ccntrol model airplane club, even if it was run
> on a volunteer and not-for-profit basis, if it did not have official IRS
> (or other valid, recognized) legal documentation stating it was a
> tax-exempt not-for-profit organization would not qualify for an .org
> suffix.
>
> So, if the KKK has the proper paperwork, they would qualify, and if they
> didn't have the proper paperwork, they would not.
>
>
> --
>
>
> Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
> ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
>   lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
>           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
>   - G'Kar  "Survivors"
>

HTML: hwg-basics mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA