Internet Society says it doesn’t plan to sell .org after ICANN rejects Ethos deal.
Internet Society (ISOC) has poured cold water on the idea that Ethos Capital might still be able to pull off a purchase of the .org top level domain.
In a post on KeyPointsAbout.org today, ISOC President and CEO Andrew Sullivan wrote:
…Now that we know that ICANN believes its remit to be much larger than we believe it is, we can state this clearly: neither PIR nor any of its operations are for sale now, and the Internet Society will resist vigorously any suggestion that they ought to be.
Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that ISOC set up to operate .org, appears also to be moving on. CEO Jon Nevett released a statement today about how the company will continue to manage the top level domain.
I imagine PIR’s employees are ready to move on from the proposed sale. Industry sources told me they were “stuck” over the past six months due to the pending sale, unable to move forward with decisions they’d typically be able to make.
Brad Mugford says
The ISOC/PIR has a lot of burned bridges to repair with the community.
They need to earn back the trust, goodwill, and credibility that was lost in this debacle.
Brad
Mark Thorpe says
.ORG should not of been up for sale in the first place.
Jack says
ISOC has failed and i stand with the EFF who said :
“Now, ICANN must begin a competitive, transparent process to identify a trustworthy and willing steward for the .ORG domain.”
Removing price caps without introducing competitive bidding is pure nonsense.
snoopy1267 says
That is exactly what it needs, ICANN should look for a new registry operators who truly supports the not for profit community.
kimyun says
Actually, ISOC is fatally flawed.
ICANN should now deem this worthy of denying ISOC renewal rights. ICANN should do what it needs to do with all registries… put it out for competitive bid, and take the profits for itself. It is an about face, but the most profitable solution for ICANN as well as the best solution for the world. The only one who is not happy with this solution… ISOC and Verisign. But.. It is how the tides will turn. Greed became too much recently.
Thomas Schultz says
Why should all registries be up for bidding? Why not keep different structures alive and see how they serve the community? Having one (or more!) type of community organized /(come up with your own suggestions here) might be useful to see what might drive the development of the internet in the future.
There is no need to have any unified structure, unless you want to greedily milk the system for profits.
Jack says
I would change your title to :
.ORG no longer for ISOC
joesaba2014 says
I celebrate this victory by the minimum, after months of bad information that everything has been done for Ethos Capital.
I write minimum, because I have heard and read that there may be another attempt to purchase ORG. in one or two years.
Everything and so I am happy to have ORG safe and hope that we do not write again that they want to buy it
Jun says
I never considered new gTLDs to be public interest domains, as operators are actually owners of them and can do whatever they want with them.
They can raise prices, create crazy rules, define which names are Premium and etc …
The inherited gTLDs have no owners! They are in the public interest, they have no owners, because the global society is the one who should be seen as the owner.
That is, they are a good for everyone!
It would be interesting to see many .com domain holders offering registration of subdomains and competing with gTLDs of the same name.
Ex .:
ltda.com X .ltda
site.com X .site
online.com X .online
And etc…