By Jim LeFevre, Senior Director of Marketing, PIR This article is part 3 of an 8-part series called “Bootcamp for Mission-Driven Organizations”. Building an engaging and well-functioning website is important to the success of your non-profit or good-for-the-world business. Do you know just how important? The answer is “very,” when you look at the statistics. […]
By Tony Connor, Director of Product Marketing, PIR This article is part 2 of an 8-part series called “Bootcamp for Mission-Driven Organizations”. Like the famous chocolate candy that melts in your mouth but not in your hands, your non-profit’s M&Ms—mission and messaging—must have staying power in order to help you raise awareness and funds for […]
By Judy Song-Marshall, Chief Strategy Officer, PIR This article is part 1 of an 8-part series called “Bootcamp for Mission-Driven Organizations”. Think of some of the most familiar brands in your daily life. What do they have in common? Coca-Cola with its vivid red can and swirling logo creates a nostalgic, All-American feeling. Nike’s ubiquitous […]
by Brian Cimbolic, Vice President, General Counsel, PIR As the steward of .ORG, Public Interest Registry is committed to serving as an “exemplary registry” for the DNS. As part of that mission, PIR published our Anti-Abuse Principles last year that serve as our north star to address questions of abuse. As PIR has stated on many occasions, generally speaking the DNS is not the appropriate place to address questions of website content abuse because of the blunt tool we as a registry have and the collateral damage that can be caused by suspending a domain name for a piece of content. That is why our Anti-Abuse Policy primarily focuses on DNS Abuse rather than website content abuse. That said, there are limited instances of website content that can be so egregious that they require action at the DNS. In 2019, we suspended thousands of domains related to DNS Abuse, but
