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Status: Proposed
Manager: Public Interest Registry (PIR)
Registry: Public Interest Registry
Registry Backend: Afilias
Type: Community gTLD
Category: Industry
Community: non-profit organizations

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.ong is a proposed new Community gTLD by Public Interest Registry (PIR) to the New gTLD Program of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The term "ong" is an abbreviation for non-government organizations in French: "Organisation Non Gouvernementale," Spanish: "Organizacion No Gubernamental," and Portuguese: "Organizacao Nao Governamental. PIR is also applying for the .ngo string to cater to all the non-profit organizations world wide. PIR is the registr operator of the .org generic top level domain name gTLD. [1]

Brian Cute, CEO of PIR said that the decision of the company to apply for the .ong and .ngo strings is natural fit for PIR, "since our founding in 2002, PIR has been serving the public interest and not-for-profit organizations, including those in the underserved markets. [2]

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