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In an unprecedented move, ICANN’s Address Supporting Organization has exercised its special powers to demand ICANN hand over documents relating to the Ethos Capital acquisition of .org’s Public Interest Registry. There’s a possibility...
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January 2, 2020 Kevin Murphy
bylaws, didp, Domain Policy, empowered community, ethos, inspection request, irp, isoc, reconsideration, rfr
Two of Public Interest Registry’s top geeks have come out swinging against recent claims that .org will suffer days of downtime if PIR is acquired by Ethos Capital. Chief technology officer Joe Abley and Susanne Woolf, senior director of technolo...
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December 30, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, packet clearing house, pch
.org domains will not suffer downtime as a result of Ethos Capital’s acquisition of Public Interest Registry, according to Afilias. Afilias, which provides PIR’s back-end registry services, wrote to ICANN (pdf) last week to reject claims by...
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December 23, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos
The Uniform Rapid Suspension process is to stay in .org, after the ICANN board of directors rejected an appeal from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF had challenged the inclusion of URS in the recently renegotiated .org Registry Agreement, on...
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December 18, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, reconsideration, rfr, URS
ICANN’s non-commercial stakeholders have “demanded” changes to Public Interest Registry’s .org contract, to protect registrants for the next couple of decades. The NCSG sent a letter to ICANN chair Maarten Botterman this week wh...
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December 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, eff, ethos, isoc, ncsg, price caps, renewal
Ethos Capital doesn’t plan to flip .org manager Public Interest Registry any time soon, according to its CEO. Erik Brooks said that private equity firm Ethos, which intends to buy PIR from the Internet Society for over a billion dollars, plans to...
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December 6, 2019 Kevin Murphy
censorship, Domain Services, ethos, isoc, price caps
The two top executives at Ethos Capital are due to confront non-profits that want to stymie its $1.13 billion acquisition of Public Interest Registry on a public call tomorrow. The call has been put together by NTEN, a conference organizer that focuses...
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December 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
abry, Domain Registries, eff, ethos, isoc, nten, price caps
The renewal of Public Interest Registry’s .org contract and its subsequent acquisition by Ethos Capital is the gift that keeps on giving in terms of newsworthy developments, so I thought I’d bundle up the most important into a single articl...
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November 26, 2019 Kevin Murphy
abry, Domain Registries, eff, ethos, isoc, Namecheap, price caps
Ethos, a Greek word associated with a person’s core values, defines one’s professional activity as well. George Hong, founder of China-based domain brokerage, Guta.com, won the Escrow.com award for best domain broker, last year. The award w...
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January 25, 2018 DomainGang
Escrow.com awards, ethics, ethos, George Hong, Guta, guta.com