The .Org Domain Will No Longer Be Sold to Private Equity Vultures

#1

Post by NoB4Mouth » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:40 AM UTC

The .Org Domain Will No Longer Be Sold to Private Equity Vultures
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Re: The .Org Domain Will No Longer Be Sold to Private Equity Vultures

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Post by dimator » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:58 AM UTC

This really is a "stunning" victory that I did not expect. In today's world, big money rarely loses a round to NGOs and the public interest. Maybe this happened because the circumstances around the selling were _that_ egregious.

Re: The .Org Domain Will No Longer Be Sold to Private Equity Vultures

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Post by Proven » Mon, May 04, 2020, 12:30 PM UTC

It doesn't matter.

TLDs are cheap and replaceable and there's no evidence that - if this TLD was sold - there'd be significant changes to begin with.

Re: The .Org Domain Will No Longer Be Sold to Private Equity Vultures

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Post by vikramkr » Tue, May 05, 2020, 2:35 AM UTC

dimator wrote: post #2

This really is a "stunning" victory that I did not expect. In today's world, big money rarely loses a round to NGOs and the public interest. Maybe this happened because the circumstances around the selling were _that_ egregious.

If they thought .org as a domain would be tarnished by this, perhaps big money redid some revenue projections on the sale and found that numbers would no longer add up.