Managing organization settings
Organization administrators can change several settings, including the names of repositories that belong to the organization and Owners team membership. In addition, organization admins can delete the organization and all of its repositories.
Verifying your organization's domain
You can verify the domains controlled by your organization to confirm your organization's identity on GitHub.
Renaming an organization
If your project or company has changed names, you can update the name of your organization to match.
Transferring organization ownership
To make someone else the owner of an organization account, you must add a new owner, ensure that the billing information is updated, and then remove yourself from the account.
Restricting repository creation in your organization
To protect your organization's data, you can configure permissions for creating repositories in your organization.
Restricting repository visibility changes in your organization
To protect your organization's data, you can configure permissions for changing repository visibility in your organization.
Allowing people to fork private repositories in your organization
Organization owners can allow or prevent the forking of any private repositories owned by your organization.
Restricting the ability to add outside collaborators to organization repositories
To protect your organization's data and the number of paid seats used in your organization, you can allow only owners to invite outside collaborators to organization repositories.
Allowing people to delete issues in your organization
Organization owners can allow certain people to delete issues in repositories owned by your organization.
Deleting an organization account
When you delete an organization, all repositories, forks of private repositories, wikis, issues, pull requests, and Project or Organization Pages are deleted as well. The organization name becomes available for use on a new user or organization account, and your billing will end.
Converting an organization into a user
It's not possible to convert an organization into a personal user account, but you can create a new user account and transfer the organization's repositories to it.
Upgrading to the Corporate Terms of Service
Organizations can upgrade from the Standard Terms of Service to the Corporate Terms of Service.
Entering a data protection agreement with GitHub for GDPR compliance
An entity that has agreed to the Corporate Terms of Service for an organization can enter a data protection agreement with GitHub for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance.