http://www.metafilter.com/tags/PIR Posts tagged with 'PIR' at MetaFilter. Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:47:02 -0800 Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:47:02 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/23006/Are%2Dyou%2Dready <a href="http://www.pir.org">On Saturday</a> owners of .org domains will have a new registry, the Public Interest Registry. After winning the .org registry away from Verisign, PIR (a creation of the Internet Society (<a href="http://www.isoc.org/">ISOC</a>)) promises to be <a href="http://www.pir.org/about.html">more responsive to the non-commercial needs </a>of Internet users, which is ostensibly what the .org is all about. Info from ISOC on the bid and other related items <a href="http://www.isoc.org/dotorg/bidbackground.shtml">here</a>, some grumbling about ISOC's methods by the losing bidders <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/1481441">here</a>. Will .org return to its roots with this change, or business as usual? tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23006 Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:47:02 -0800 .org business DNS internet InternetSociety ISOC PIR PublicInterestRegisty registry WolfDaddy