27 Large, Respected Non-Profits Send Letter to Internet Society Urging It to Stop Sale of .ORG

[Raoul Plommer]

>
> As I  said in my previous message, we shouldn’t care too much who owns
> .org; we should care about the contractual substance in the .org Registry
> Agreement (RA)


Am I getting this right, that being the "DNS overlord", it could be easier
for ICANN to make a new regulating decision about .org, instead of trying
to overturn a previous one? In other words, could ICANN change the terms on
the contract and .org owners would just have to suck it up?

-Raoul


On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 at 04:41, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Hmm, well, 27 large, respected nonprofits may have their heads up their
> posteriors.
>
> Why are they asking ISOC to stop the sale of PIR? The sale is a huge
> benefit to ISOC. In fact, it is the only thing about this deal that makes
> good sense. ISOC no longer has to run a nonprofit that makes a big profit.
> It can detach itself from the domain name industry and lose its conflict of
> interest in the ICANN DNS policy making process.
>
>
>
> As I  said in my previous message, we shouldn’t care too much who owns
> .org; we should care about the contractual substance in the .org Registry
> Agreement (RA)
>
>
>
> *From:* NCSG-Discuss <NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> *On Behalf Of *Ayden
> Férdeline
> *Sent:* Friday, November 22, 2019 2:22 PM
> *To:* NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> *Subject:* 27 Large, Respected Non-Profits Send Letter to Internet
> Society Urging It to Stop Sale of .ORG
>
>
>
> The American Alliance of Museums, the Crisis Text Line, Girl Scouts,
> National Council of Nonprofits, Public Knowledge, R Street, YMCA, Wikimedia
> Foundation, and EFF, among others, have sent a letter today to the Internet
> Society urging it to stop the sale of the Public Interest Registry to Ethos
> Capital. The group has argued that .ORG is extremely important to the
> non-profit community, and as such, they should have a voice in decisions
> affecting the future of the domain. The group has also launched an
> accompanying website:  https://savedotorg.org/
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>
> Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline
>
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