<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Hi Sam,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am trying to find out how many of the 10 million .org domain names are actually noncommercial, because if there are substantial commercial domain names, then Ethos Capital can disregard any comments or suggestions because their registrants will be mainly commercial entities.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Regards,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 10:09 AM Sam Lanfranco <<a href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca" target="_blank">lanfran@yorku.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to underscore the part of Milton’s history
about the decision to make .org open to all, and for it not to be restricted to
officially registered ngos and non-profits. That openness is important for
several reasons. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first is that many small non-profits and community
organizations simply do not have the finances and administrative capacity to
register their organization, especially in countries where registration is not
easy. As well, once registered they have routine reporting obligations that can
be both burdensome and easy to overlook. One year earlier in this decade the
South African government revoked the registration of (as I recall) about
one-third of the registered ngo’s in South Africa, for failure to submit their
annual report. Some no longer existed and some were poor or absent minded, but If
.org were not open, a number of those ngos would have lost their websites as
well. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The second is that some governments require that an ngo must
be registered if it is to receive any “foreign funding” (e.g. ISOC or ICANN COPE).
This requirement is used as a tool to punish ngo’s whose work displeases the
government. The ngo is not closed, but its finances are crippled. It would be
sad if they also had to lose their .org website. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The third of course is the need for some ngo’s and community
groups to maintain a high degree of privacy under difficult circumstances. Even
attempting to register as an ngo can result in serious harm to participants. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lastly, social media platforms have become attractive as the
first-choice digital presence for many because they are open and accessible to
all. While that openness comes with its problems as well, it has fewer obstacles
than working through a registered ngo and using a .org domain name website. Nothing
should be done to make the .org less attractive. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">That brings us back to the
wisdom and integrity of the pending .org registry sale. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sam Lanfranco</p>
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