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From: asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Who may register in the .org domain?
Message-ID: <129451@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 18 Apr 91 16:22:01 GMT
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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.

I have been getting a number of questions about this.

This was based on some conversations that I had over a year ago with the
NIC about who was able to register as what.

A 501-C3 organization is a non-profit that has registered under the
501-C3 reg with the IRS.

Now even though a .ORG is supposed to be one of these things, not all
existing .ORGs are, and the NIC may not have checked this out when they
registered a group under the .ORG domain, or the NIC may have changed
their minds about who can be a .ORG.

This is just my understanding of the way that it was, *which may be
wrong*.
	--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)