The .ORG gTLD celebrated the anniversary last Friday. It is almost as old as the Internet itself, and appeared 30 years ago. Unlike the second oldest .COM domain, initially launched for commercial use, the .ORG domain was addressed to charitable, volunteer, scientific, and cultural projects, and continues to play a significant part in all these areas to the present time.
A lot of momentous events, which predetermined an image of the modern Internet, connect with the .ORG domain. The Wikimedia Foundation non-profit introduced open-source database wikipedia.org on January 13, 2001. The WordPress platform, which became one of the most popular content management systems for websites creation, was first presented on the wordpress.org on 13 January, 2001.
The .ORG domain now has over 10.5 million domain names registered making .ORG the world’s third-most reg generic top-level domain. Public Interest Registry, the non-profit operator of .ORG, launched happy30th.org on the occasion of anniversary where users can have a look at the history of one of the oldest domains.
