Just to put the usage of .ORG in some kind of perspective, these are the October 2019 web usage survey results for COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO and the .ORG by country of registrar percentages. The web usage surveys where statistical surveys for the Domnomics book. The .COM survey was on 1,500,000 domain names and the others were on 150,000 each. gtld - Content - Templated Content - Redirects - No Content com: 14.82% - 27.62% - 27.20% - 30.37% net: 14.29% - 23.22% - 25.30% - 37.30% org: 14.58% - 24.50% - 30.51% - 30.41% biz: 11.63% - 21.18% - 24.24% - 42.95% info: 9.53% - 29.31% - 26.21% - 34.96% Templated content is PPC landers, for-sale pages and affiliate landers. No Content is holding pages, forbidden/not found pages, unavailable pages, no response websites and domain names without websites. They are simplified categories from the 28 that are used in the surveys. The HTTPS redirects and Internal Redirects (included in the redirects category above) were: gTLD - HTTPS - Internal com: 10.06% - 5.29% net: 6.67% - 4.20% org: 8.89% - 5.54% biz: 4.69% - 3.40% info: 4.84% - 4.39% In terms of HTTPS redirects, the .ORG is closest to .COM. HTTPS is a good indicator of how a gTLD is developing. There has been a shift to HTTPS over the last five years. The top three countries in .ORG by country of registrar are: USA 66.25% - Germany 8.42% - Canada 6.29% China is the #2 country in .COM and .NET. The Chinese market has been targeted by registries that wish the grow their zone files with discounting offers. This creates a boom and bust cycle in the discounting gTLD as many of these discounted registrations don't renew at full fee and are deleted. Many of the .ORG registrants in developing markets outsource their registrations to countries with more mature Internet hosting. Registrars like Godaddy and Tucows have large numbers of hosters/resellers that use their services. This is also a factor in countries where the ccTLD is the dominant TLD. Most webhosting companies don't bother with becoming an ICANN accredited registrar as the costs and effort don't justify it. Instead, they become ccTLD registrars once their number of hosted domain names justifies it. The gTLDs are actually either plateaued or in decline in some country level markets as the new registrations momentum is in the ccTLDs rather than the gTLDs. Regards...jmcc -- ********************************************************** John McCormac * e-mail: jmcc@hosterstats.com MC2 * web: http://www.hosterstats.com/ 22 Viewmount * Domain Registrations Statistics Waterford * Domnomics - the business of domain names Ireland * https://amzn.to/2OPtEIO IE * Skype: hosterstats.com **********************************************************