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.org is an unrestricted gtld... You don't have to be a non-profit to register a .org.. you just need $10. So I don't know what trust you're referring to.

If you've been putting any trust into a website because it's a .org, that was your mistake... It's been unrestricted for a very long time.

Ethos changes nothing in that regard.

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

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

Agree. As an owner of a few .orgs I confirm there is no such restriction.

I had some domains using the three, .com .net and .org variants as many of us did years ago. I never used them, though all this news and not using them properly made it really easy for me to let them expire (the org variant), while previous years I would neatly renew them without thinking.

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