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Comment by jolmg | Hacker News Reader

Lots of distros are in .org aren't they? I see Arch, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, Centos, OpenSuse, Raspbian, Damn Small Linux, Linux From Scratch, NixOS, Guix, OpenWRT, PfSense, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, Illumos, and probably lots, lots more.

GNU is also on .org.

Also languages, at least Python, Ruby, Haskell, Rust, Go, Clojure, Racket, Zsh, etc.

.org seems to be the go-to TLD for open source projects.

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".org" is almost the standard for all community projects, there will be huge impact if the management went wrong.

What will be the impact?

I run a tiny carpooling site (not for profit) snowpool.org . If they turned around and upped the fees to 3K a year or something, it would basically force me to shut the service down.

This is an incredibly awful move, I'm completely astounded that it was allowed to happen.

if there's money to doing something, it will happen.

Why not just move to a different domain, and while your old one is still "cheap", do a redirect etc?

Because I've built up a presence over 10 years of running the site, so, I'm not just about to move! It'd be a huge pain to move probably hundreds of email addresses over to a new domain etc too (I sign up with [domain]@snowpool.org)

It completely depends on what they do, I've renewed for 10 years so I have time now, if they put the fees to >500 a year then I'll definitely move.

Do you own a domain yourself that people have been using for 10 years? You might feel differently about the ease of "just moving"

Projects losing their ability to run their existing site because money, losing it to <whatever> and significantly losing in visibility e.g. python.org or freebsd.org now advertising spyware or some shit with the historical ranking of a trusted and respected source.

Or these project having to plonk a significant amount of money in paying for their domains rather than <insert thing which is actually useful>.

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