ByDan Knauss
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Some very good news from Maarten Botterman, ICANN‘s Board Chair: ICANN has voted to reject the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital.
This is a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations, and individuals who use the .ORG extension for their sites. 😀
Thomas Nachbar of the University of Virginia School of Law writes in “Why We Can’t Disconnect Russia From the Internet” how he would really like to do so — and more: In the heady early days of the internet, the U.S. approach to internet governance was privatization to encourage competition and to open the internet…
Automattic has won the rights to manage the gTLD .blog, one of the most sought after generic top level domain extensions to date. They paid “about $19M” for the privilege, according to Matt Mullenweg’s blog post (which he has since updated to link to a story that offers an indirect estimate, but his Facebook page…
Not everyone is happy that ICANN has decided to block the sale of the .org TLD and Public Interest Registry (PIR), but those in the not-for-profit community likely agree it “is reasonable, and the right thing to do.” 😅 The specific reasons and rationale behind this decision are worth a read.
