[NCUC-DISCUSS] DomainIncite has provided a summary documents:

[Wisdom Donkor]

  DomainIncite has provided a summary of these documents:

http://domainincite.com/25176-25176

"here are the headlines:

* The deal is being partly funded by an enormous loan.
* Technically, Ethos isn’t the direct buyer. There are at least three
corporate entities involved in the acquisition that we haven’t heard of
before.
* Ethos won’t reveal the names of the directors of PIR’s would-be owner.
* Another former senior ICANN staffer and long-time Fadi Chehadé
collaborator has been revealed as having an interest in the acquisition."

Cheers,

*WISDOM DONKOR*
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Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:28 AM Wisdom Donkor <wisdom.dk at gmail.com> 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*
> President & CEO
> Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation
> P.O. Box CT 2439, Cantonments, Accra | www.aodirf.org  /
> www.afrigeocon.org
> Tel: +233 20 812 8851
> Skype: wisdom_dk | Facebook: kwasi wisdom |  Twitter: @wisdom_dk
> __________________________________________________
> Specialization:
> E-government Network Infrastructure and E-application, Internet
> Governance,  Open Data policies platforms & Community Development, Cyber
> Security,  Domain Name Systems, Software Engineering, Event Planning &
> Management,
>
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