A for-profit group might not end up controlling the .org domain after all. The ICANN Board has rejected Internet Society’s proposal to sell control of the .org domain and the Public Interest Registry, ...
ICANN, the organization that oversees domain name registries, blocked the sale of the dot org domain name registry to a private equity investment company. The decision to withhold consent for the sale ...
The nonprofit .org domain registry was acquired for $1.135 billion by a private equity firm after a series of odd events. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The private equity takeover of one of the ...