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From: schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall)
Subject: Re: Who may register in the .org domain?
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.171546.19039@uu.psi.com>
Organization: Performance Systems International, Inc.
References: <1991Apr12.151815.12030@oswego.oswego.edu> <129382@uunet.UU.NET> <129451@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 17:15:46 GMT

To re-inforce Andrew's posting this what the NIC has been saying to
us for years, about ORG.

Philosophically I believe the NIC has a long tradition of grandfathering
all old decisions, so I couldn't imagine there being any real problems.

Marty

In article <129451@uunet.UU.NET> asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) writes:
>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)