Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:6376 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:755 Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Subject: Re: Who may register in the .org domain? In-Reply-To: asp@uunet.UU.NET's message of 18 Apr 91 00:24:59 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. References: <1991Apr12.151815.12030@oswego.oswego.edu> <129382@uunet.UU.NET> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 03:35:09 GMT In article <129382@uunet.UU.NET> asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) writes: The ORG domain is for non-profit, (IRS) 501-C3 organizations. The 501-C3 is some IRS rule & regulation. You actually have to register with the IRS to be a 501-C3 organization. Interesting. Do you have the appropriate chapter and verse of the NIC guidelines that recommends this treatment? (I presume all existing .org's will be grandfathered in.) Existing practice has allowed unincorporated entities like the "Michigan Unix Users Group" to set up mail park domains and share service costs among the membership; I would hope that NIC rules would not outlaw these "mail parks" or force all such organizations to register each of their individual members in the .US domain. We are running a service that will register domains for UUCP sites (and provide a nameserver for that domain). We basically check the form over, set up the nameservers, and forward the domain registration form to the NIC to be processed & registered. So, if you are a non-profit, 501-C3 uucp site, then you can register with uunet for my.OWN.ORG. Let's make this clear; these non-profit sites are registering with the NIC, and that process is free (modulo the trauma of figuring out the paperwork). They are also paying uunet some small, reasonable fee (is it still $35?) for running the .OWN.ORG name server. UUNET does not have an exclusive on this service -- some internet sites if you ask them kindly will run your name server for you, and no doubt in the fullness of time other internet service providers will offer similar registration setups. -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216