Several organizations including EFF, NTEN, Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, and other nonprofits have planned an in person protest rally outside ICANN’s offices in Los Angeles for the planned .Org sale to Ethos Capital. The protesters will also be delivering a petition, signed by over 21,000 individuals and 600 organizations and NGOs, to ICANN …
Early this month Internet Society (ISOC) announced that Private equity firm Ethos Capital had acquired the Public Interest Registry (PIR), which runs the .org domain used for non-profit organisations’ websites that it currently runs. The sale has howeevr elicited major opposition from organizations and individuals such as the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), Electronic Frontier Foundation, …
Amidst hushed and public questions, reports are rife that Private equity firm Ethos Capital has acquired the Public Interest Registry (PIR), which runs the .org domain used for non-profit organisations’ websites from the Internet Society ISOC. PIR was created in 2002 and The Internet Society acquired the .org registry. While announcing the acquisition, Internet Society …