ICANN, the organization that oversees domain name registries, has stopped the sale of the .org domain name registry to a private equity investment company.
ICANN: We reject $1.1bn sale of .org registry to private equity firm – ZDNet
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Link: ICANN: We reject $1.1bn sale of .org registry to private equity firm
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Private equity firm won’t get to control the .org domain after all – Mashable
Remember last year when it looked like a private equity firm would gain control of .org domain registration, making non-profits fear fees would skyrocket? Yeah, that’s not happening anymore.
In a Tuesday blog post, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board chair Maarten Botterman announced it was rejecting the sale of non-profit .org registry Public Interest Registry (PIR) to private equity firm Ethos Capital.
Link: https://mashable.com/article/ethos-capital-org-domain-nonprofit/
via: Mashable
