Well, about the legal part of it, I really cant help you. I had my site with a .com for many years, one day I had problems with my Hostin company and changed it to Dreamhost, there, I wanted to change to a .org domain and did it. I currently have my site with a .org without any problems. I dont think legal issues are relevant to domain names, for example, the popular security/cryptographer Bruce Schneier has his site with a .com, and the site is only used as as Personal Webpage. As for Dreamhost, I am very happy with them. I currently have the Shared Web Hosting (no need for a Dedicated Server) and I'm really happy. The company is growing allot, and everything (hardware) is changing to better on their datacenter. As for domain registration, GoDaddy problably already has that domain name registered, since I just tryed to register a new domain and worked great. P.S: Still about Dreamhost, their "Control Panel", where you manage everything about your hosting (DB, Installations, Updates, DNS, Mail, etc) is really god and easy to use.