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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: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 16 2019, @12:55AM (2 children)
ICANN had nothing to do with the decision. That kind of thing can happen when you decide to spin ownership and administration of a TLD off to an independent organization. Which is why SN only ever (and likely will only ever) issued shares to the two people who had a bunch of their own money in its creation. Yes, they could technically both decide to sell us to DICE but having put their money where their mouths were (and refusing every offer of a buyback to repay the debt) to have a site missing the shitty aspects of /., that's highly unlikely.
A) It's not even remotely the most trust-centric part of the web. It's just a TLD with a stated purpose. Not even a socialist-ish or even especially organized purpose, just not a commercial one.
B) Being unknown doesn't make you evil-looking, just unknown. It doesn't take a conspiracy or evil intent to fly below the radar, just doing boring-assed business and not being a bunch of flashy assholes.
C) Making a profit on domain names doesn't make you evil. Not even an obscene profit. They're domain names not epi pens. Might make them assholes though.
I really don't know if it's going to fuck up .ORG or not but if it does, it does. It'll be a shame because of the history but there are plenty of fairly inexpensive TLDs still out there.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday November 16 2019, @10:38AM (1 child)
If they ruin .org, sure there are a lot of cheap .io and .biz, but the normies and even people like me have learned that a .org is something that has more trust.
DNS is odd but the elbow connects to the funnybone, icann approved the original owner, and then the original owner gets to sell to whoever they want and ICANN can't veto? I think they could veto.
I am suspicious of anyone who gets to own a 'capital' fund when I don't know how he has earned any money.
Capitalists like to brag when they can, and if they are not bragging there is a reason.
Do you remember the last time someone was a 'capitalist' 'money manager' and no one asked how he got his money?
Answer: Epstein
If you want more of the same, keep blindly supporting a class of leaches. I haven't gone to harvard, but I have worked my entire life fixing the internet and making computers work, and I have a website with just about all of my political beliefs clearly stated, why am I providing more value to the internet than these alleged owners of it? (who are also apparently independently wealthy)
They will ruin .org, and the people who will really suffer are people with lower IQ's who have a hard enough time figuring out which shill organization is real and which one is a payed shill operation run by rich people to confuse them.
The .org name is now operated by rich people whose interest is confusing them, and the people most hurt by it are not going to probably ever be able to adapt to .onion. Also good luck keeping your address private as an owner, every organizer in the entire world will be able to hunted down by the mafia ezpz.
Good job well done. - TMB (this is you making apologies and trying to smooth it over like nothing happened)
(I am only expressing skepticism, mr brooks is welcome to come here and demonstrate how he is the right person for the .org ownership and how all of my surface level observations of what he(if he is even human, he looks kindof robotic) is are totally off the mark, and he earned his money by saving up his lawn mowing earnings or what.
But I will bet you in the last week mr brooks has posted 3 times on linked in and attended 5 meetings, written 10 emails, been in the office for about 15 hours, and drives a car that costs over 70k. And his daddy was rich.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 16 2019, @02:53PM
I dunno where you got that .ORG had any trust to it but it appears that you've learned something that's simply not true.
Um, that's your radical socialist misconceptions talking. Anyone who understood capitalism would know that you don't put up public advertisement if you're not trying to entice the general public to your product or service. How often do you hear hedge funds advertising on the TV or radio? How about industrial fabrication businesses? How about an ad for chemical cleaning of chicken houses in between flocks? Bragging is not a trait of capitalism, it's a trait of individuals. Advertising is a trait of capitalism and you don't advertise to people who are never going to give you money.
I'm an unrepentant capitalist and you won't find a trace of any of my businesses online unless someone's happened to talk about them on social media for some extremely weird reason. I haven't been hiding anything, I just haven't ever catered to the general public. Word of mouth and targeted sales conversations get my products and services to the people it would matter to because I go way out of my way to make sure they think I do impeccable work. Now I also turn down a whole lot of work because I'm just not interested in trading any more of my fishing and otherwise fucking off time for money. And I have no desire at this point in my life to hire people to trade their time on my behalf. That's just me though, I'd rather have time than money past a very low bar because you can trade time for money but never the other way around.
No, because I've done nothing to warrant an apology and two seconds after I post this I won't think about it ever again unless it becomes relevant to a conversation. All I did was try to let you know that your brain is seriously fucked up and you would benefit from professional help. It gains me nothing for you to like me, so I genuinely don't give a shit if you do or not. It was just a bit of inconsequential concern for my fellow man presented in my usual manner.
Frankly, I very much doubt he is. But doubt logically necessitates that I admit that I do not know. If or how much he fucks things up is an unknown and cannot even be accurately inferred ahead of time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.