eco and Public Interest Registry to Hold ".ORG Day" on 8 October in Frankfurt

September 30, 2008; 07:38 AM

"The .ORG domain has come to be regarded as the premier address for sharingideas, enabling action, and enhancing lives. The .ORG registry enables itscustomers to maximize the power of the Internet to serve their missions andpassions for change in the world, while fostering new ideas and voices..ORG has become an address associated with these characteristics that holdmeaning for the entire global community and society at large," says HaraldA. Summa, Managing Director of the eco federation.

"The workshop's theme to foster dialogue about mainstream to groundbreaking ideas is a great fit for .ORG, The Public Interest Registry. The.ORG registry promotes ideals and principles necessary for an opencommunity and the long-term health of the Internet," says Alexa Raad, CEO,of Public Interest Registry. "Since Germany has the second highest marketpenetration of .ORG domains, this country was a natural choice to locatethis unique event."

The agenda features sessions on new developments with the .ORG domain inthe area of security and stability as well as discussion on the challengesand opportunities of the increasing Domainer market. Since The PublicInterest Registry took over the administration and management of the .ORGdomain in 2003, the number of registered domains grew from 2.3 million toover 7 million today. .ORG is the third largest generic top-level domainin the world, following .COM and .NET, and the broad spectrum of .ORGregistrants extends from global organizations such as Amnesty Internationaland Greenpeace to communities such as Craigslist and Wikipedia, as well asfederations and associations.

About .ORG, The Public Interest Registry

Trusted across all ages, backgrounds and nationalities, .ORG is wherepeople turn to find credible information, get involved, fund causes andsupport advocacy. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry empowers the globalnoncommercial community to use the Internet more effectively and,concurrently, takes a leadership position among Internet stakeholders onpolicy and related issues. The .ORG domain is the Internet's third largest"generic" or non-country specific top-level domain with more than 7 milliondomain names registered worldwide. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry wasfounded by the Internet Society in 2002. It is based in Reston, Virginia,USA.

About eco Federation

eco, (www.eco.de) the federation of the Internet economy, has been inGermany for over ten years. More than 400 member enterprises employ over250,000 coworkers and gain a conversion of approximately 45 billion euroannually. The eco associations are represented by approximately 230companies in the German Internet community. The federation's goal is it toadvance the commercial use of the Internet in order to strengthen theposition of Germany in the Internet economics and with it the Germaneconomic situation. The eco federation prides itself as a company thatseeks the protection of interests of the German Internet economy inrelation to policy, in legislative procedures and in internationalcommittees.

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For more information contact:

Kate RussellRMR & Associates (for Public Interest Registry)+1 (301) 230-0045 x.19Email Contact

CRYSTAL PETERSONMarketing & Communications Manager.ORG, The Public Interest RegistryM: +1 703 380-4678E: Email ContactW: www.pir.org

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