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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
A petition has been opened on Change.org calling for the acquisition of Public Interest Registry by Ethos Capital. The petition calls on ICANN, the Internet Society and PIR to “suspend” the sale “pending an open, transparent and multi...
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November 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
big room, Domain Registries, Ethos Capital, isoc, petition, price caps
ICANN’s board of directors will gather today to consider whether the acquisition of Public Interest Registry by a private equity company means that it should reverse its own decision to allow PIR to raise .org price arbitrarily. Don’t get t...
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November 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
cep, Domain Policy, eff, irp, isoc, Namecheap, price caps, reconsideration, rfr
ICANN has rejected two appeals against its decision to lift price caps and introduce new anti-cybersquatting measures in the .org space. In other news, gambling is going on in Rick’s Cafe. NameCheap and the Electronic Frontier Foundation both fil...
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November 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
bamc, Domain Policy, icann 66, price caps, public interest registry, rfr
ICANN this evening said that it will continue to open up gTLD registry contract amendments for public comment periods, despite posting information yesterday suggesting that it would stop doing so. The organization recently formalized what it calls R...
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October 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gdd, price caps, public comment, public interest registry, ra, raa, rsep
ICANN’s Ombudsman has sided with with ICANN in the fight over the lifting of price caps on .org domains, saying many of the thousands of comments objecting to the move were “more akin to spam”. Herb Waye was weighing in on two Request...
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September 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Namecheap, Ombudsman, price caps, public interest registry, reconsideration, rfr
ICANN has rubber-stamped Public Interest Registry’s new .org contract, removing the price caps that have been in effect for the best part of two decades. That’s despite a huge outcry against the changes, which saw the vast majority of respo...
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July 1, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, price caps, public interest registry, registry agreement, renewal