.ORG, The Public Interest Registry Celebrates 9 Million Registrations

World's Third Largest Generic Top-Level Domain Hits Milestone as Registrations Increase by 10.3 Percent in 2010

RESTON, Virginia, March 2, 2011 - .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (www.pir.org/) (PIR) is pleased
to announce that .ORG is now home to over 9 million domain name registrations.
With a growth of 10.3 percent in 2010 - the domain continues to be trusted
and embraced, making it the world's third largest generic Top Level Domain
(gTLD). .ORG has significantly increased its domains under management (DUM)
in the last five years; up from just
3.9 million in 2005 according to the organization's recently published
bi-annual "Dashboard" (www.pir.org/news) report.

(Photo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100628/ORGLOGO)

"Hitting the 9 million registration mark is a testament to both .ORG's
reputation and its impact within the Internet community," said Brian Cute,
CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry. ".ORG remains a community-driven
platform and has become the domain of choice for organizations, individuals,
and companies to channel their passion toward a shared purpose with their
community."

This unparalleled growth is due in large part to key accomplishments
achieved since .ORG's inception in 1985. In the decades following the first
.ORG registration - mitre.org, the domain has become the trusted domain of
choice for a vast range of non-profits, associations, international
corporations involved in cause marketing, open source software developers,
and arts communities. As one of the original top-level domains, .ORG's true
power lies in its ability to generate interaction and conveys trust. For the
past 25 years, .ORG has reshaped the online world by advancing knowledge,
creating opportunities, driving conversations, and most importantly, building
online communities.

About .ORG, The Public Interest Registry

Trusted across all ages, backgrounds and nationalities, .ORG is where
people turn to find credible information, get involved, fund causes and
support advocacy. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry empowers the global
noncommercial community to use the Internet more effectively and,
concurrently, takes a leadership position among Internet stakeholders on
policy and related issues. The .ORG domain is the Internet's third largest
"generic" or non-country specific top-level domain with more than 9 million
domain names registered worldwide. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry, was
founded by the Internet Society in 2002. It is based in Reston, Virginia,
USA.

Michael Steavenson, for .ORG, The Public Interest Registry, +1-646-428-0630, pir at allisonpr.com