Board believes Reconsideration Requests are without merit. ICANN's Board of Directors has found no problems with ICANN's handling of the .org contract renewal with Public Interest Registry. Two organizations filed reconsideration requests over ... Continue Reading3 Comments
PIR (.Org) slashes registry fee to Afilias in half to $18 million
· UncategorizedNon-profit's renegotiated contract includes steep reduction in fees. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit organization that operates the .org top level domain name, cut the fee it pays its backend technical registry provider by half in ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Public Interest Registry (.org) hires CFO
· Uncategorized.Org manager hires Laurie Tarpey as CFO. Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that manages the .org top level domain name, has hired a new Chief Financial Officer. Laurie Tarpey was most recently the Chief Operating Officer of Raffa, P.C., ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
EFF files reconsideration request over .Org decision
· Policy & LawAdvocacy group blasts ICANN decision to apply URS to legacy top level domain. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a Reconsideration Request with ICANN over the terms of ICANN's contract renewal for .org with Public Interest Registry. It's ... Continue Reading1 Comment
ICANN: All your Base Agreement are belong to us
· Policy & LawICANN responds to (some) questions about why it decided to remove price controls. Earlier this month, Internet Commerce Association asked ICANN to explain its decision to remove price controls on .org domains. Cyrus Namazi, Senior Vice-President ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Namecheap files reconsideration request over removing .Org, .Info price caps
· Domain RegistrarsCompany asks ICANN to reconsider its decision to remove price caps on some legacy top level domains. One of the largest ICANN-accredited domain name registrars has filed a Reconsideration Request (pdf) with ICANN over its decision to remove price ... Continue Reading11 Comments
PIR (.org) releases annual report, shows impact from new Afilias deal
· ServicesMargins are up thanks to renegotiated contract with Afilias. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the organization that operates the .org top level domain, released its 2018 annual report today. The report includes data for 2018 and gives the first ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Thoughts on domain price increases, two weeks later
· Policy & LawHere are my thoughts after processing ICANN's pricing decision for the past two weeks. It's been two weeks since ICANN quietly announced that it was going forward with removing price caps on .org, .biz and .info domain names. The comment period ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Domain overseer lifts all price caps on .Org domain names
· Policy & LawICANN ignores community input and agrees to lift price restrictions on .org domains. As many feared, the comment period was just a formality. ICANN has agreed to remove price restrictions on .org domain names, letting the domain's manager, ... Continue Reading44 Comments
How ICANN uses the .Org registry to fund the Internet Society
· UncategorizedEditor's note: this post is by Nat Cohen. I am publishing it because he provides a rich context for ICANN's proposal to remove price restrictions on .org domain names. Any opinions in this post are those of the author. ICANN awarded the .org ... Continue Reading7 Comments