news WP.org was donated to WordPress Foundation by WPBeginner.com

[Atta]

One of the important news last week for WordPress community was the donation of domain WP.org to WordPress foundation by Syed Bakhi – the founder of WPBeginner. It is a commendable decision. He said in his blog post:

For majority of you, this doesn’t mean anything and life goes on as usual. For those who’re more involved in the WordPress community, this is a huge deal because now you can type wp.org in your Tweets, Slack messages, Facebook statuses, etc without cursing at me or WPBeginner.

Many of you may experienced the redirect of WP.org to WPBeginner.com in past. It is a great 2L.org domain. WordPress is one of the most popular CMS and has very strong developers, designers, and writers community.

WP is a perfect short name for WordPress used heavily in news, at social media and in general discussion.

What you do think about this decision?

 

[Ali]

The smartest decision he could have made was to donate it. Even if with a 100% genuine heart, the publicity, back-linking, new subscribers, traffic, and so on that he gained from the donation alone are worth FAR more than what he could have sold it for. Not like WPBeginner needs any more help with acquiring search engine traffic, but with this donation, he now has even MORE authority in the SERPS as a result of it.

Brilliant.

 

[1NiteStand]

Strategic move

 

[trp3]

Would be awesome if np.com could be donated to namepros.com

 

[19domain]

nice move.

 

[Akos123]

I don't think wp.org was sold and then presented as a donation to the public as it may already break rules of the NDA. It was probably still worth donating the domain by counting the free press coverage he got for doing so.