jhitchco - 7:13 pm on May 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

ORG is a gTLD just like any other TLD (com, net, info, biz). While you may think that the registry is for not-for-profits, that is just false. Org has never had a charter or a restriction like that.

As an operator of DNS for several TLDs, costs have been going up. There are simply more users for the same domain name.

I doubt that the 60 cents is going to make a tangible difference to any business for anyone but a portfolio holder. Even if the organization has several domains that it routinely uses.