Alexa

I recall a year ago when, as a new CEO, I attended some industry events and first brought up the topic of DNSSEC in the .ORG zone. At that time, DNSSEC wasn’t as understood as now (notice I did not say it is now well understood), and there were major opponents to DNSSEC in very influential arenas who charged that the DNS did not need anything like DNSSEC and that the time for the type of technology like DNSSEC had come and gone.

Every year, leading edge technology and social /cultural trends converge at an event called The Webby Awards in NYC.  The awards are billed as “the leading International award honoring excellence in interactive design, creativity, usability and functionality on the Internet”.  Just as the motion picture industry has the Oscars, our industry has the Webby’s.  The Webby’s brings out celebs as well as media types,  to rub shoulders with the most creative up and coming talents and change makers in the Internet world. 

It occurred to me when taking over as CEO last July that .ORG has what no other TLD can claim: a real sense of community. True, this is where you can find an awful lot of good content -- but when you look deeper you can glimpse an antidote to the daily news of warfare, and discord, namely, what makes us humane, not just human.