.org Domain Names
.org domain names, held in the right hands
Third of the original 1985 endings, and run today by the Public Interest Registry. What the world still expects to find behind a .org is a cause, a community, or an open project of some kind. Register from $11.99/yr, and the renewal figure appears on screen before payment.
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The Extension
Why .org?
No advertising budget will buy the signal .org carries. Charities, foundations, standards bodies and open-source projects have spent decades teaching the public that whatever sits behind a .org organises itself around something other than profit. Eligibility tests do not exist here; the register takes anyone who asks. Yet the association holds firmly enough that the ending does genuine work for a mission-driven name, and slightly odd work for a plainly commercial one.
Inside an organisation the registrant record matters more than it does anywhere else. Committees rotate. Volunteers drift off, and the name has to outlast every last one of them. So where that is what you want, the body itself goes on the .org record rather than whichever officer happened to be there on the day, WHOIS privacy is added without a charge appearing anywhere, and the renewal is printed while you can still walk away. A charity that lets a domain lapse learns about it when the donation page goes dark, which is a miserable way to find out.
Good Fit
.org works best for
- Charities, foundations and community organisations
- Open-source projects and standards efforts
- Clubs, societies and membership bodies
- Campaigns and causes that need believing on the strength of one glance
With Every Name
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Registered to the organisation
Put the organisation itself on the registrant record, which you are perfectly entitled to do. Every incoming chair, treasurer and webmaster then comes and goes while the domain stays put.
The trust is built in
Decades of honest use mean a .org starts a conversation with public goodwill behind it, and arrives at the mail filters with a clean sheet. Nothing remotely like that inheritance passes to a younger suffix.
Renewals nobody has to remember
Auto-renew is left switched on, reminders land in a mailbox somebody genuinely reads, and the ongoing rate is visible on screen before registration happens. Continuity gets built rather than hoped for.
Common Questions
Questions about .org
Does an organisation have to be a nonprofit before it registers a .org?
No. From the very beginning the register has taken all comers. Filtering happens socially rather than contractually: the public expects a .org to stand for something, which means a plainly commercial venture can find the ending raising expectations it never intended to raise, and then having to answer for them.
Our .org is registered to a volunteer who left the organisation. How bad is that?
More organisations lose their names down that route than any other, so settle it this week rather than halfway through a falling-out. Whoever appears as registrant of record is the one person the registry will listen to. Shift the record over to the organisation while relations are still cordial. We will walk you through the change itself and through whatever confirmation steps it triggers along the way.
Can we transfer our existing .org to you?
Yes, by the standard auth-code transfer. Unlock at the registrar holding it now, get the code out of them, then approve the confirmation the moment it arrives. Any term still outstanding travels with the name, and on a gTLD such as .org the move adds further time on top. Delegation is untouched throughout, so the site and the donation pages carry on serving without a break.
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Registration and renewal figures for every ending we carry are on the price list.
Read the whole domain price list or transfer a name you already hold.
Put the .org on the register before someone else does.
Search runs live against the registry, WHOIS privacy costs nothing where the registry allows it, and the renewal figure is shown before you pay.
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