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Proposal to Operate the .ORG Internet Domain

You can express your views on this bid at the ICANN Public Comment Forum

UIA's qualifications for its Diversitas proposal

UIA Diversitas team response to the selection criteria

UIA executive summary of the .ORG reassignment proposal to ICANN [full proposal]

UIA / Diversitas Comments on Preliminary ICANN Staff Evaluation Report (August 29, 2002)

Questions from the media concerning UIA / Diversitas

Associated registry activity of the UIA

Supportive information culture of the UIA

Responsiveness of the UIA to the interests of the nonprofit community
UIA enabling strategy: evolution not revolution

Response to NCDNHC public support evaluation: methodology -- evidence -- questions
Presentation of evidence in support for UIA proposal by the non-commercial community
Indication of long-term pattern of support for UIA registry activity
Summary of support letters and support in kind
Criticism of UIA's approach in demonstrating support

Evidence of non-proft, cross-sectoral support in practice for UIA registry activity
Evidence of support in practice for UIA registry activity from the international non-profit community

Definitional game-playing: civil society, non-commercial, non-profit, non-governmental, third sector, etc.

Analysis of international non-profit organizations (with websites) in the UIA registry

  • Top Level Domain (TLD) assignments
  • .ORG domain by HQ of country by continent
  • Analysis of the Internet's ORG Domains: a study in self-organizing diversity (by Anthony M. Rutkowski, netscribe)

    Imagining a diversity of communities to sustain new patterns of partnership and coalition

  • Raising the quality of insight: visualization and sonification
  • Imaging a space for a diversity of identities
  • Multi-media tools for imagining community and its challenges
  • Examples of visualizations from the UIA registry data
  • Distinguishing the style and image of an enhanced .ORG
  • Diversitas: Social purpose non-profit society, under Belgian jurisdiction [more information (in French)]

    The Parable of the Fig Leaf

    Other perspectives on the .ORG reassignment process

    Expect the unexpected... soon!