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The controversial proposed sale of the .org internet registry to an unknown private equity firm will hit a critical decision point this week, and all the organizations in charge are refusing to talk about it.
On December 9, DNS overseer ICANN put a temporary halt on the sale by sending a letter to the organization that runs the .org registry, PIR, as well as its parent company, ISOC aka the Internet Society, demanding greater transparency over the sale to Ethos Capital as well as answers to a series of questions asked by the wider internet community.
That response is due this week and a response has apparently been sent but no one – not ICANN, ISOC, PIR or Ethos – will talk about it. We still don't even have a list of the questions ICANN claims it asked.
"PIR has submitted responses to ICANN's request for additional information pertaining to the transaction with Ethos Capital, LLC," ISOC told us, having asked PIR on our behalf. "PIR is working with ICANN to release its original notice regarding the contemplated change of control and information it provided in response to ICANN's subsequent request. This information will be released in the coming days pursuant to the principles set forth in ICANN's Documentary Information Disclosure Policy."
We approached ICANN, pointing out that this response clearly indicates active discussions between the organizations as well as decisions being made on the basis of ICANN policies, and asked for comment. ICANN told us a day later that it wouldn't comment.
In the meantime, a group of internet pioneers and former ICANNers – including its first chair Esther Dyson and former CEO Mike Roberts – have said they are setting up a new non-profit organization that they propose take over the .org registry in order to continue to run it as a non-profit, rather than convert to a for-profit corporation, as the Ethos Capital deal indicated.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @11:45AM (2 children)
> ....Esther Dyson and former CEO Mike Roberts – have said they are setting up a new non-profit organization that they propose take over the .org registry....
Here's hoping they win. A few more details here, https://medium.com/@ccor/charitable-web-leaders-launch-cooperative-alternative-for-org-domain-769b61b40de2 [medium.com]
But in case they don't, we just bought five years of domain name hosting for the little .org we volunteer to run.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday January 14 2020, @05:58PM
So we will have a bake sale to take on the 10 layers of obfuscating shell company hedge fund capital management firms between this and Thrive Capital, and Unit 8200.
I still can't get over the fact that the thing that "Erik Brooks" Vampire esq. or whoever/whatever that face in a suit really is, did before this was manage a children's concert series where sexual lyrics are changed to just kindof-sexual lyrics.
So glad they must be to have someone like him managing all of those children, aspiring for stardom...hmm. Something about that just stands out. Brown Graduate, gets hired right away to work with 'capital', first assignment, wrangle that kids concert series. And he is right on it. Next thing, purchase .org for 1 billion dollars.
The stuff of legend, the american dream is live on....
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https://archive.is/4KMrO [archive.is]
https://archive.is/hloUM [archive.is]
https://archive.is/YxuED [archive.is] (please share widely, I made this yeah but I would rather it spread than ask for credit)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @08:41PM
Is that has-been clown Tim Berners-Lee in there?