perl.org is the official vehicle for The Perl Institute. The motto of
TPI is ``helping people help Perl help people'' (or something like that). It's a non-profit organization supporting development, documentation, and dissemination of perl. Current directors of
TPI include Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal Schwartz, whom you may have heard of somewhere else around here.
The perl.com domain is Tom Christiansen's domain. He created it as a public service long before perl.org came about. It's the original
PBS of the Perl world, a clearinghouse for information about all things Perlian, accepting no paid advertisements, glossy gifs, or (gasp!) java applets on its pages.