Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed

Stephen Downes

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There has been ongoing discussion through the week in reaction to the news of the conversion of the non-profit .org top level domain to a profit-making entity. "The suffix "org" on an internet address – and there are over 10 million of them – has become synonymous with non-profit organizations. However, overnight and without warning that situation changed when the registry was sold to a for-profit company. The organization that operates the .org registry, PIR – which stands for Public Interest Registry – has confirmed it will discard the non-profit status it has held since 2003 as a result of the sale." This is why we can't have nice things.

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