Internet scientists demote .ORG to “dwarf domain”: Satire

A satirical article regarding domain names jokes regarding demoting .org to a “dwarf domain”.

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CERN, SWITZERLAND — An uproar took place in the digital world when the Internet Engineering Task Force demoted .ORG sites to the status of “dwarf domain” at its sixty-sixth official meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. IETF chairman Brian Carpenter read aloud the resolution and asked for a show of hands. The resolution passed by what Carpenter described as “a slim but decisive margin.”

The historic vote by the IETF ended years of controversy following cyber-squatters called for more top-level identifiers such as “.XXX” and “.GEO”. The move threatened to add another 250 million entries to the Domain Name System (DNS).

As stated by the fresh definition, a “domain” is (1) anything on the Internet that’s massive enough to hire a professional webmaster; (2) that has a purpose of its own and is not a satellite of some other domain; and (3) that routinely clears stale content from its website…