FW: The Washington Post: Opinions | Don=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=give your dot-org domain away to a private company

[Sam Lanfranco]

Here is a section from the Washington Post article by Esther Dyson that is
left out of the abbreviated version at Benton.org:
	I [Esther Dyson] have joined a group of peers in philanthropic and
Internet leadership to offer an alternative: a cooperative organization
(the Cooperative Corporation for .ORG Registrants, or CCOR) with membership
and voting power in the hands of the Internet’s 10 million-plus dot-org
users. This new organization is designed to keep dot-org in the hands of
its rightful owners: the user community. The co-op is committed to keeping
dot-org safe, secure and free of any motivation to profit off its users’
data or to upsell them pricy add-ons. 

	The current, founding members of the board of CCOR, me included, are not
interested in owning or even managing the dot-org registry. We have
committed to stepping aside as soon as possible to allow democratically
elected members to serve. Before that can happen, though, ICANN must
exercise its authority to deny the sale and consider alternatives. 
Sam L.
 There is a seriously abbreviated version at: 
https://www.benton.org/headlines/don%E2%80%99t-give-your-dot-org-domain-away-private-company
(https://www.benton.org/headlines/don%E2%80%99t-give-your-dot-org-domain-away-private-company)


Sam 
 On 18-01-2020 16:09, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:
 > Esther Dyson has this op-ed in the Washington Post, today
 >
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-give-your-dot-org-domain-away-to-a-private-company/2020/01/17/c858d250-3950-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-give-your-dot-org-domain-away-to-a-private-company/2020/01/17/c858d250-3950-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html)

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