The Controversial Sale of the .ORG Registry: The Conversation We Should Be Having
February 11, 2020
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On November 13, 2019, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced its sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to a private equity firm Ethos Capital for $1.1 billion. The .ORG registry, run by PIR, supports 10 million.ORG registrants, including many of the world’s largest and smallest human rights and nonprofit groups.
PIJIP hosted a discussion of the proposed sale, which was ultimately blocked. Our speakers were Andrew Sullivan, President and CEO of the Internet Society (ISOC), Mitch Stoltz, Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Professor Benjamin Leff of WCL who teaches and researches the law of charitable and nonprofit organizations, and Marc Rotenberg, President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information.
PIJIP's Internet Governance Project works closely with the AU Internet Governance Lab, an interdisciplinary group of scholars, researchers, faculty, and students, https://internetgovernancelab.org/