[liberationtech] Update on the Sketchy, Sketchy Case of the Sale of the .Org Domain

[Yosem Companys]

>
> ...there were significant concerns raised upon the news that Internet
> Society (ISOC), the (perhaps formerly?) well-respected nonprofit that helps
> "provide leadership in Internet-related standards, education, access, and
> policy" had agreed to sell off the Public Interest Registry, which is the
> registry that manages all .org top level domain (TLD) names, to a private
> equity company called Ethos Capital. Just having a public interest
> nonprofit selling off a part of its operations to a private equity group
> would be trouble enough, but the details make the story look much, much
> worse.


https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191125/23132643458/sketchy-sketchy-case-icann-execs-self-dealing-regarding-org-domain.shtml
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