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Why does suso.org use the .org top level domain instead of .net or .com?

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Why does suso.org use the .org top level domain instead of .net or .com?

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Originally, suso.org was just meant to be a hobby and non-profit venture. Historically, the .org domain extension was supposed to be for non-profit organizations. However, on the Internet, there has never been any regulation of these guidelines. As a result there has been a graying of the lines between what all the top level domains really mean about the type of website you are going to or what country it is located in. For instance, slashdot.org, a well known technology news site that has been around since 1997, originally didn’t view itself as a for profit venture either, but eventually became worth millions after it was purchaced by OSTG. To make the matter more complicated, suso.com and suso.net were quickly nabbed by domain speculators the same month that we bought suso.org. However in 2005 we purchased suso.com from one of these domain brokers. Eventually we may include suso.com into the mix as aliases for suso.org, but we will always be centered around suso.org. Besides, the .or

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