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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: 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.