[NCUC-DISCUSS] Reuters reports new cooperative formed to take over management of .ORG

[Carlos Afonso]

Ths story is in the New York Times as well:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/dot-org-private-equity-battle.html

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 08/01/2020 07:28, Wisdom Donkor wrote:
> In this 7 January 2020 article
> <https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/reuters-america-internet-nonprofit-leaders-fight-deal-to-sell-control-of-org-domain.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar>
> we
> learn that, "*prominent internet executives told Reuters they have created
> a nonprofit cooperative they are offering as an alternative owner of .org.*"
> 
> This would appear to me to pose an existential threat to ISOC, as this
> nonprofit cooperative - whose membership appears to me to have more
> political muscle than ISOC has - is not proposing to buy PIR from ISOC, but
> to instead have the .ORG Registry Agreement assigned to it by ICANN.
> 
> The full article is here, and I have extracted some relevant quotes below:
> https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/reuters-america-internet-nonprofit-leaders-fight-deal-to-sell-control-of-org-domain.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar
> 
> *“What offended me about the Ethos Capital deal and the way it unfolded is
> that it seems to have completely betrayed this concept of stewardship,”
> said Andrew McLaughlin, who oversaw the transfer of internet governance
> from the U.S. Commerce Department to ICANN, completed in 2016.*
> 
> *Maher and others said the idea of the new cooperative is not to offer a
> competing financial bid for .org, which brings in roughly $100 million in
> revenue from domain sales. Instead, they hope that the unusual new entity,
> formally a California Consumer Cooperative Corporation, can manage the
> domain for security and stability and make sure it does not become a tool
> for censorship.*
> 
> *... **The initial seven directors of the cooperative include former
> founding ICANN President Michael Roberts, MacArthur Foundation
> philanthropist Jeff Ubois and Bill Woodcock, whose Packet Clearing House
> now runs the technical aspects of the .org system under contract.*
> 
> *The new group has briefed members of the U.S. Congress and hopes to prompt
> the Internet Society to reconsider the sale. But its best shot at stopping
> the pending sale lies with ICANN, which can veto any change in ownership
> out of concern for the security, reliability or stability of the .org
> domain.*
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> *WISDOM DONKOR*
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