<html><head></head><body>Hi,<div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Yes, Andrew Sullivan sent the following to an ISOC mailing list on November 15th:</div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 06:24:27PM +0100, Richard Hill wrote:</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Thank you for the clarifications, which are indeed helpful. I presume that you cannot answer, at this stage, the key questions: how much cash is ISOC getting, and how is Ethos Capital raising the funds to pay ISOC.<br class=""/><br class=""/></blockquote><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Indeed I can not, but Ethos has permitted me to say a little bit:</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">• The investors are all U.S. investors. In addition to Ethos Capital,</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> they include:</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">o Perot Holdings (affiliated with Petrus Asset Management</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Co/Petrus Holding Co)</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">o</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">FMR LLC (affiliated with Johnson family)</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">o</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Solamere Capital (affiliated with Romney family)</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""/><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">•</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Ethos Capital – along with all of the investors – are committed to ensuring complete continuity of PIR’s operations and maintaining the strong community relationships PIR has established over the years.</span></blockquote></div><div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class=""><br class=""/></font></div><div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Thanks.</font></div><div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class=""><br class=""/></font></div><div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Amr<br class=""/></font><div><br class=""/><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 22, 2019, at 12:03 AM, Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" class="">icann@ferdeline.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><div class="">
<div class="">This blog claims to have obtained an email from the CEO of the Internet Society that <i class="">"identifies the three families that have come together to buy .ORG. They are all American and they are all Republican. The proud new owners of the .ORG domain are the Johnsons, the Perots and the Romneys." </i><br class=""/></div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class=""><a href="https://medium.com/@jacobmalthouse/whos-going-to-run-org-in-a-word-the-gop-8809ef6f9679" class="">https://medium.com/@jacobmalthouse/whos-going-to-run-org-in-a-word-the-gop-8809ef6f9679</a><br class=""/></div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">I cannot confirm the authenticity of this email, but if true, this offers some insights into who is funding the acquisition of the Public Interest Registry.<br class=""/></div><div class=""><br class=""/></div><div class="">Ayden Férdeline<br class=""/></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""/></div></body></html>