27
votes
ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) | The ICANN board withholds consent to transfer .org to Ethos Capital
Link information
This data is scraped automatically and may be incorrect.
- Published
- Apr 30 2020
- Word count
- 893 words
context: PIR is the current organization that owns the .org top level domain. Recently, PIR's parent org decided to sell PIR (and .org) to a private equity fund, Ethos Capital. The ICANN board has essentially shot that down.
What a refreshing bit of good news to see during these trying times. When I first heard of the news that .org, the TLD most frequently used by non-profits and charities, was going to be managed by a private equity fund, I was disgusted. Is nothing sacred anymore? However, seeing ICANN so clearly call out the corporate greed with this cancellation has restored some faith back into humanity:
Given how much of the Internet has been ruined by capitalist tendencies, it's nice to see some of the early ethos of the web still remaining.
I’m glad the CA AG knocked some sense into them. I’m still worried, though, because it was a weird deal to begin with, and I wonder what on earth motivated it.