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.ORG Isn’t Broken, and We Don’t Need Private Equity to ‘Fix’ It

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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItLast week, Russian citizens began receiving instructions to either download a government-approved web browser, according to instructions issued by their government’s Ministry of Digital Development and Communications. On the one hand, these changes may be necessary for Russians to access...Like most people, we at EFF are horrified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also like most people, we are not experts on military strategy or international diplomacy. But we do have some expertise with the internet and civil liberties, which is why we are deeply concerned that governments around the...Ethos Capital is at it again. In 2019, this secretive private equity firm that includes insiders from the domain name industry the nonprofit that runs the .ORG domain. A huge coalition of nonprofits and users . Governments expressed alarm, and ICANN (the entity in...If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the —the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity firm Ethos Capital....San Francisco—In an important victory for thousands of public interest groups around the world, a proposal to sell the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital and convert it to a for-profit entity late yesterday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).The...In a stunning victory for nonprofits and NGOs around the world working in the public interest, ICANN today Ethos Capital’s plan to transform the .ORG domain registry into a heavily indebted for-profit entity. This is an important victory that recognizes the registry’s long legacy as a mission-based,...Update 4/20: ICANN has postponed its decision about the sale of .ORG until May 4thICANN, the organization at the top of the Internet’s domain name system, may be close to deciding whether the takeover of the .ORG domain registry by a private equity firm can go forward. EFF, along with...As the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital plays out, we see more and more why this sale was rushed through: the longer we have to look at it, the more questions we all have, and the fewer answers we get. For the...The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is reviewing the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital, and ICANN has the power to stop the sale. EFF and several other organizations as part of ICANN’s winter...The Internet Society’s (ISOC) November announcement that it intended to (PIR, the organization that oversees the .ORG domain name registry) to a private equity firm sent shockwaves through the global NGO sector. The announcement came just after a change to the .ORG registry agreement—the...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItLast week, Russian citizens began receiving instructions to either download a government-approved web browser, according to instructions issued by their government’s Ministry of Digital Development and Communications. On the one hand, these changes may be necessary for Russians to access...Like most people, we at EFF are horrified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also like most people, we are not experts on military strategy or international diplomacy. But we do have some expertise with the internet and...

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