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Controversial sale of .org web domain blocked:
The controversial sale of the .org web domain - used by charities and non-profit organisations - has been set back after months of deliberation.
Public Internet Registry (PIR), which runs the .org domain, was sold in November to private equity firm Ethos Capital for a rumoured $1bn (£800m).
Critics warned that the new owner would try to run .org for profit, costing charities millions.
[...] The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is the governing body for top-level domains such as .org and .com.
It declined to honour the transfer of PIR from the Internet Society to Ethos Capital on Thursday.
It said the block was "reasonable, and the right thing to do".
In a statement, it said Ethos Capital had "no meaningful plan to protect or serve the .org community".
The takeover would leave a debt of $360m, which PIR would be "forced to service" and "provide returns to its shareholders".
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Hurray, the .org TLD won't be sold off to a private company
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jasassin on Saturday May 02 2020, @07:31PM (6 children)
An open question.
What could/should be done to prevent these shenanigans in the future?
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday May 03 2020, @12:27AM (2 children)
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Sunday May 03 2020, @12:28AM (1 child)
Acronyms scrambled my B.R.A.I.N.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Sunday May 03 2020, @07:41AM
Release the B.R.I.A.N.!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @01:34PM
Allow every organisation, person, being, thing have their own .domain for their very very own.
I claim .DorkWithAMission
It'll be like the original .com landclaim era all over again!
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday May 04 2020, @06:35PM (1 child)
First, why use gmail and encryption? You might as well just send all your encrypted emails straight to the nsa decrpytion mainframe for priority analysis. Using gmail for privacy is like using a bath of sulpheric acid to get clean. I could think of better metaphors but I think it is clear enough, the two things are diametrically opposed.
Your question is why I wrote this book and wrote here all of last year, so it is ironic to to me anyone even needs to ask.
https://jmichaelhudson.net/rated-soylent-comments/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
https://archive.is/FHpOa [archive.is]
And I also wrote essays and put them into a book:
https://leanpub.com/mentalselfdefense [leanpub.com]
This will warn and instruct all civilians on the depth and sophistication of efforts by various state and corporate actors to infiltrate and disintegrate all effective civilian organizations, while using their remaining air of legitimacy, even in the obvious absence of it, to endorse other tyrannical measures.
Read my comments here: https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/44gq/saidit_has_the_chance_to_become_a_free_speech/ [saidit.net]
That is the way forward, I have been saying this for nearly 20 years and I am not changing my tune, everything has only further proven I was right when I got my degree in 2001. We need to accept that mediation and moderation and administration of forums is at this point not a hobby or volunteer effort, but legitimate, necessary-for-survival element of human governance, and recognize that this costs money.
Also that the people who have a billion dollars to ruin .org clearly have too much money they do not deserve, so the money is there, we just need to move it to where it will solve problems rather than create them(or build the entire internet into a tyrannical control mechanism for a tiny handful of https://archive.is/2MFbn [archive.is] to turn the world into an even worse place.
Roberts rules of order need to be updated, digitized, and secured, as do voting, or the internet is going to plunge us into a regressive dark age, which is really what is being threatened at the moment. And what spooky silver spook jackasses like erik brooks either do not understand, or understand all too well.
I mean, he should a strong background to grasp these concepts after managing children's musical concerts, right? /s
Or you can consider the ideas of someone like myself, who was talking about this at the very beginning when people thought it would all just sort itself out somehow and we would never face a scenario where the entire world could not figure out who to trust on the matter of a pandemic.
(and the greatest enabler of computer viruses was for some reason suddenly the global authority on biological viruses...)
Meanwhile the most popular *dialogue* in the history of the world got 1 million live views for a simple conversation, and the most famous internet company is outright censoring the participants without even have to justify their actions.
And you will also notice archive.is came under attack this week for daring to make things that cannot be censored.
You tell me how far we have come, but to me it looks like backwards.
When you get stuck, you have to question your assumptions. And the entire premise of your question is just that, so maybe you should consider the ideas of people like me who have been singing the same tune from the beginning and saw all of this coming.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday May 05 2020, @07:56AM
With a 4096 bit key, let them grind away on that for a few hundred (thousand?) years. I'm not an encryption expert, but I highly doubt they would crack that key before resorting to the rubber hose.
As far as gmail, if it's end to end encrypted who cares? It's probably safer going through gmail since most of the people I email are using gmail so the mail doesn't have to go through any external mail exchanges.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A