Will I get in trouble having an .org domain for profit?

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Galaxyl

Jul 7th 2007, 4:28 am

I am just about to launch an ebook that I have written. I wanted to register the ebook title as the domain name. mytitle.com and mytitle.net were taken and parked, so I picked mytitle.org. Now someone has spooked me by telling me I will get in trouble because my site will be a profit site (it will be a direct sales page for the ebook - it's not like it is an Adsense site that I could say is just covering its costs).

Is this true that I am not allowed to use a .org site for this purpose? I thought it was a convention that non-profit sites use .org, not a requirement.

.info is available so I guess I will register that too - just in case - but I would prefer to leave my site on the org domain now that I have bought it and pretty much uploaded everything.

Richie_Ni

Jul 7th 2007, 4:30 am

Is this true that I am not allowed to use a .org site for this purpose?
No it's not true!

.info is available so I guess I will register that too - just in case - but I would prefer to leave my site on the org domain now that I have bought it.
Not a good idea to get .info imo.

norfstar

Jul 7th 2007, 4:53 am

There are no restrictions on usage of .ORG domains for commercial purposes.

Galaxyl

Jul 7th 2007, 5:07 am

Thanks that has put my mind at rest! :)

anions

Jul 7th 2007, 3:10 pm

Yes, I had the same doubts when i saw many .orgs making profit, coz I'd read in this in my 8th grade computer science textbook:

.org - non -profit organization.

Cal813

Jul 7th 2007, 5:33 pm

yeah they say non-profit, but you can still use it for profit.. though org are normally used by non=profit organizations..

Loco.M

Jul 7th 2007, 5:34 pm

you can use it for whatever you want ;)

cheers

hmansfield

Jul 7th 2007, 5:59 pm

Yes, I had the same doubts when i saw many .orgs making profit, coz I'd read in this in my 8th grade computer science textbook:

.org - non -profit organization.

....um...What grade are you in now?:(

Hooper

Jul 7th 2007, 7:27 pm

Initially that was the intention for the extension .org but was never enforced and doubt it ever will. My kind of science class where you can talk about the internet.

http://helpdesk.easyspace.com/faq.php?do=article&articleid=1205

ivnj

Jul 7th 2007, 9:23 pm

Not a good idea to get .info imo.

What's wrong with .info?

Thanks,
ivnj

anions

Jul 9th 2007, 12:14 pm

....um...What grade are you in now?:(

:p I'm much older now.. :D