Rare orchid divisions change hands for sums that would surprise anyone outside the hobby. That single fact tells you most of what you need to know about this audience. Orchid societies are among the most organised enthusiast networks anywhere: local chapters, formal judging, plant registries, flask and seed exchanges, annual conventions with travelling attendees. Committed hobbyists renew memberships, buy subscriptions and attend events without being chased, which is the profile every community business wants and few find.

Almost every orchid society in existence is already a .org, because they’re membership nonprofits. This is the plain unqualified version of that name on the correct extension, which is about as clean a match as this market produces. Orchid societies are among the best organised hobbyist networks anywhere: local chapters, formal judging, plant registries, and a global community trading divisions, flasks and expertise continuously. Some have been running since the nineteenth century.

Network is doing real work in this version of the name. When the product is connecting hundreds of small independent organisations, .net describes the business better than .org would. Orchid societies number in the hundreds worldwide, running chapters, shows, judging programmes and plant registries, mostly in isolation from one another. A federation, a shared registry, an inter-society trading platform, or a directory of chapters all fit the extension precisely. The commercial side is genuine.

Names that sound old suit horticulture better than names that sound new, and this one has enough age to feel rooted while staying perfectly comprehensible. A herbary is a herb garden, and the word also carries an older sense close to herbarium, a collection of preserved plants for study. Both readings are useful. Herbs sit at the intersection of several healthy markets: cooking, gardening, traditional medicine and botanical research, with a large engaged hobbyist audience and a commercial trade in seeds, plants, dried material and instruction.