{"id":16571,"date":"2020-05-01T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T08:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/2020\/05\/icann-votes-down-controversial-org-sale-proposal\/"},"modified":"2020-05-01T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T08:50:26","slug":"icann-votes-down-controversial-org-sale-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2020\/05\/01\/icann-votes-down-controversial-org-sale-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"ICANN votes down controversial .org sale proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Organizations overseeing Internet domain names have rejected the offer to transfer .org top-level domain management from non-profit organizations to private equity groups. ICANN said it would not approve the sale of the .org operator Public Interest Registry. This is because it referred to the intentions of debt and for-profit company Ethos Capital, creating "uncertain uncertainty" for the domain.<\/p>\n

In a blog post, the ICANN Board of Directors said that this sale \u201cwill have given up service for the benefit of corporate stakeholders and would have given up PIR's current focus for companies that do not have a meaningful plan to protect or protect .org\u201d. Community. "The sale also pointed out that PIR could leave US $ 360 million in debt and make operations unstable in the future.<\/p>\n

PIR was founded in 2003 by the Internet Association (or ISOC) to handle .org domains. However, at the end of 2019, ISOC announced that it would transfer control of .org to Ethos with a $ 1 billion donation. The action was immediately criticized by some original members of ICANN, including advocacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the first chairman Esther Dyson. Opponents challenged the prospect of a stock company managing a non-profit domain despite the promise that it would not implement price increases or act as a censor.<\/p>\n

The .org controversy particularly noted prominent organizations as ICANN's decision was delayed several times as it requested additional information about the transaction. Earlier this month, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra urged ICANN to refrain from selling, warning ICANN that it could "endanger the stability of the .org registry." The board echoed Becerra's dissatisfaction with the decision.<\/p>\n

EFF praised ICANN's move and called it "a big win for millions of non-profit organizations, civic groups and individuals who make .org online online."<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Organizations overseeing Internet domain names have rejected the offer to transfer .org top-level domain management from non-profit organizations to private equity groups. ICANN said it would not approve the sale of the .org operator Public Interest Registry. This is because it referred to the intentions of debt and for-profit company Ethos Capital, creating "uncertain uncertainty" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}