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Public Interest Registry, the non-profit organization managing the .ORG Top Level Domain (TLD) has been sold to investment firm Ethos Capital.
PIR was established by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage and operate the .ORG domain. Since then, .ORG has risen to become the largest purpose-driven domain used by millions of organizations and others to achieve their online goals.
[...]“This is an important and exciting development for both the Internet Society and Public Interest Registry,” said Andrew Sullivan, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Society, the organization that established Public Interest Registry. “This transaction will provide the Internet Society with an endowment of sustainable funding and the resources to advance our mission on a broader scale as we continue our work to make the Internet more open, accessible and secure – for everyone.
Obviously this comes as a complete and utter surprise to everybody, a couple of months after ICANN eliminated the .org price cap despite overwhelming opposition.
All of PIR’s domain operations and educational initiatives will continue, and there will be no disruption of service or support to the .ORG Community or other generic top-level domains operated by the organization.
It looks like all parties involved wisely decided not to comment on any expected price increases though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 15 2019, @04:14PM (1 child)
If you're not reengineering at least half of the protocol stack with it, there isn't much of a point. DNS is busted. But so is TCP. No sense in writing in writing a new set of sockets unless you're going to do both.
(Score: 2) by exaeta on Friday November 15 2019, @06:49PM
It could go over bluetooth, probably. My goal is that it doesn't really care about what the layer below is. Although I'd probably use UDP instead of TCP, for the actual server. I think the server could have a socket abstraction layer.
Replacing TCP with another protocol via UDP might be interesting as well, but that's less important.
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