<Tr> <Th> DNSSEC </Th> <Td> yes </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Registry Website </Th> <Td> Public Interest Registry </Td> </Tr> <P> The domain name org is a generic top - level domain (gTLD) of the Domain Name System (DNS) used in the Internet . The name is truncated from organization . It was one of the original domains established in 1985, and has been operated by the Public Interest Registry since 2003 . The domain was originally intended for non-profit entities, but this restriction was not enforced and has been removed . The domain is commonly used by schools, open - source projects, and communities, but also by some for - profit entities . The number of registered domains in org has increased from fewer than one million in the 1990s, to ten million as of June 2013 . </P> <P> The domain ". org" was one of the original top - level domains, with com, us, edu, gov, mil and net, established in January 1985 . It was originally intended for non-profit organizations or organizations of a non-commercial character that did not meet the requirements for other gTLDs . The MITRE Corporation was the first group to register an org domain with mitre.org in July 1985 . The TLD has been operated since January 1, 2003 by Public Interest Registry, who assumed the task from VeriSign Global Registry Services, a division of Verisign . </P>

Is a tld that was originally intended for non profit entities