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.Org Registry No Longer Being Sold -- But What Should Happen Next? (medium.com) 25

Posted by EditorDavid from the same-as-the-old-boss dept.
One of the advisors to the #SaveDotOrg campaign was Jacob Malthouse, co-founder of the.eco top-level domain (and also a former ICANN vice president). "Here's what needs to happen next," he writes in an essay on Medium: As of today, the #savedotorg campaign has nearly 27,000 supporters and 2,000 nonprofits behind it. It dwarfs any campaign Internet governance has ever seen. There's no way to de-legitimize such an outpouring of concern... ISOC and PIR leadership must recognize and apologize for the harm and uncertainty that they have caused both nonprofits and Internet governance. There never should have needed to be a #savedotorg campaign, because dot-org should never have been put at risk.

Second, The ISOC board should invite the leadership of the organizations that led the #SaveDotOrg campaign to an open dialogue to understand their concerns and priorities for the future of dot-org. This dialogue should recognize that it may be agreed that ISOC and PIR may no longer be the appropriate stewards for dot-org... [A]ll parties should agree to work together with ICANN to chart a course of action that builds confidence and faith in the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance. While there are many challenges with this model, one being how messy it seems, in the end the right decisions were taken.

We must all come together to defend the model that has built and will continue to sustain a single global Internet... Now is the time to think about how we can move forward together.
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.Org Registry No Longer Being Sold -- But What Should Happen Next?

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  • They should give it to me.

    I'm at least going to pay it token respect while trying to cash out slyly.

  • run a go fund me to make money to pay the board of directors.

    $Profit.

  • Business as usual (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ArchieBunker ( 132337 ) on Sunday May 03, 2020 @01:51AM (#60016924)

    How about keep up what they've been doing for the last three decades? You know this decision was made by some MBA types looking to loot the assets and move onto the next victim.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by slazzy ( 864185 )
      Glad everyone could see it for what it is. For the good of the world we should keep .com, .net, .org domains reasonably, stable priced not jacked them up to $10,000 per domain per year like they were probably going to do. There's tons of different domain extensions for those who want to gamble on future renewal cost.

  • Follow the money (Score:3)

    by khchung ( 462899 ) on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:22AM (#60016962) Journal

    The next step is what Agile would call retrospectives -- review how the decision to sell .org was made, how the the management and the board decided to do something that is so obviously against the organization's mandate.

    My bet is enough people was paid enough money to make the sale happen.

    • Re:Follow the money (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Pinky's Brain ( 1158667 ) on Sunday May 03, 2020 @04:06AM (#60017092)

      That's not how we do corruption in the west, corruption in the west is almost always plausibly deniable.

      It's about doing favours to revolving door friends. It's about first massively growing the endowment of your non-profit and then down the line making the argument "well other non profits with these levels of endowment pay their boards better, guess we have no choice to follow suit if we want to retain talent".

      Your not going to find documented evidence of honest corruption, the west does corruption corruptly.

  • Lets just pretend the board and CEO aren't a bunch of assholes who wanted to massively raise their salaries after they got a billion dollar endowment and do their revolving door friends a solid. While telling themselves and everyone else about all the charity they could do with the money they leech from .org pay pigs.

    The boards can refresh themselves and slowly shed the biggest assholes over time and the people doing the real work maintaining the infrastructure and doing the administration probably can just

    • Its not just the .org scandal though, these types have been trying to leech money out of things for a long time now. Remember the .sucks domain, organised crime protection rackets are more honest.

      Go to the public meetings and demand votes of no confidence in all the board members, replace them with peopel who know how the internet works and want to keep it running smoothly as a public resource.

  • They should be outed and fired (Score:3)

    by dsanfte ( 443781 ) on Sunday May 03, 2020 @05:06AM (#60017164) Journal

    The people who proposed selling .org should be personally identified and fired. Enough playing games.

  • Clearly the biggest problem is control of the .org is still under strong influence of the US Govt, (Calif AG in this case). First thing should be to make sure that no single government controls key parts of the internet.

  • This video, from Lawful Masses [youtube.com], describes what happened.

    Here is the letter from California AG Xavier Becerra. It says in part:

    The absence of critical information is troubling given the uniquenature of the .ORG community. In the event Ethos Capital—a new company without any track record that appears to have been formed for the purpose of taking control ofthe .ORG registry—makes any mistake, it will beat the expense of the .ORG community and will impact the broader Internet community. The cost

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