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Save .org: Help stop the sale of the Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm

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    Deimos
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    The EFF has a post up with some more info about this here as well: Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG I was thinking about submitting this separately too (and still might), but...

    The EFF has a post up with some more info about this here as well: Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG

    I was thinking about submitting this separately too (and still might), but The Register published a good investigation into the different companies and organizations involved in this, the suspicious connections between them, and the timing of various events: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/

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  2. Neverland
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    This feels like one of the peaks of the "privatize all the things" experiment that we've been running since 1981. I have been aware of ICANN for years, but this is the first time I've really...

    This feels like one of the peaks of the "privatize all the things" experiment that we've been running since 1981.

    I have been aware of ICANN for years, but this is the first time I've really started looking into them. The new TLD b.s. was bad, but this .org thing is truly insane or corrupt.

    I found this namecheap post about ICANN, and read the wikis, but I still don't understand what the incentive is for ICANN to pull in all this momey, like new TLDs and this .org sale. What exactly is the incentive structure here?

    Also, what changed at ICANN that they started this new money-first train of thought?

    Edit: Found a likely answer, straight up corruption.
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612816

    12 votes