.org and it's future

[downloadfreak]

Will .org always be 3rd best or will current/new .tld's overtake it's value.

.org has been around a long time, what does it's future look like?

 

[Jeffrey]

For the domainers .ORG is not for organizations, but a revenue with the looks of $$$!

 

[namethreads.com]

The best TLD depends on the usage for the site.

.info is good for information sites. e.g. www.microbes.info
.org is good mainly for non-profit sites. e.g. mozilla.org
.us is good for US sites. e.g. gasbuddy.us

 

[xmeltrut]

I think the internet population at large still feel .org is less-evil than other extentions. How many people would contribute to Wikipedia of it was wikipedia.com? Well most probably still would but I don't think it would be as many.

Also .us taking over .org? How far is it down the list is it because there are loads of more popular country extentions than .us. If anything rises that high I would put my money on .cn.

 

[downloadfreak]

.com
.net
.org

those have always been the top 3, but we now have .info and .us which are prooving to be very popular, but do they both have enough strength to over take .org ? Possibly given 2-5 years?

 

[worldstar]

Seems info gains more and more popularity than org!

 

[netzilla]

I think a .org can make as much revenue as a .com but like what was said above it depends on the usage. It was initially created for non-profit organizations but now days its used for everything.

I have 2 .org's I use one for my "playground" and the other is a forum for people who have lost a child and it does pretty well for that type of use.