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Why should organizations be forced to change their business cards, website address, all email addresses, letterhead, signage and such because the new venture capitalist vulture owners of .org are a pack of shady rent seekers?

To quote Michael Bolton from Office Space:

Samir: Hmm… well why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?

Michael: No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

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We've witnessed many companies abandon .ly and .io with time. Plus, .org means "organization". Commercial entities are also organizations, so, not sure why it was chosen for nonprofits. NPO and NGO are way more meaningful abbreviations anyway.

For once, .ngo is more credible. From wikipedia:

> Unlike the more prevalent .org domain, which is also managed by the Public Interest Registry, .ngo will require validation of the registrant's non-governmental status

It's more credible on paper, but the common internet user is more likely to know and trust .org domains then any of the new TLDs.

Yes, and it is slightly amusing to think that an ordinary internet user is going to make a decision about whether to trust .org more than .ngo domains by checking Wikipedia. That's wikipedia dot org...

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