Private Equity Ghouls Buy Non-Profit That Handles .Org Domains

guest · May 3, 2020

The Dot Org Sale Has Been Rejected
Here’s what needs to happen next
May 2, 2020
https://medium.com/savedotorg/whats-next-for-dot-org-31f233d4445a

When I began writing about the dot-org sale, it was out of concern for the loss of what I felt strongly was long understood to be a unique place in the Internet’s landscape. Like a national park, dot-org deserved special protection. It turns out lots of people and organizations agreed.
On April 30th, 2020, The ICANN Board upheld these values.

The question of who will run dot-org, and for whom, was opened by the Internet Society. It is still far from answered. ISOC and PIR have so far shown little concern about the damage they’ve done to their reputations.
ISOC and PIR’s announcements seem to imply that things will simply go back to the way they were. PIR will continue to run dot-org and ISOC will continue to do what it does.
Here’s what needs to be done: [...]
Now is the time to think about how we can move forward together. I hope ISOC and PIR rise to this challenge and act on these recommendations.
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guest · Dec 24, 2020

How We Saved .ORG: 2020 in Review
December 24, 2020
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-review

Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it had agreed to sell the Public Interest Registry—the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity firm Ethos Capital.
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While .ORG is safe for now, the bigger trend of registries becoming chokepoints for free speech online is as big a problem as ever. That’s why EFF is urging ICANN to reconsider its policies regarding public interest commitments—or as the Internet governance community has recently started calling them, registry voluntary commitments.

The story of the attempted .ORG sale is really the story of the power and resilience of the nonprofit sector.
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