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ICANN is going to devote 90 minutes to discussing the controversial acquisition of Public Interest Registry by Ethos Capital on Monday, and the sparks could fly. It’s actually going to be the first formal session of the abridged, online-only ICAN...
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March 5, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, ethos, icann 67, isoc, price caps
Ethos Capital has volunteered to have price caps written back into Public Interest Registry’s .org contract, should ICANN approve its $1.1 billion proposed acquisition. The private equity firm said Friday that it has offered to agree to a new, en...
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February 25, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, picdrp, pics, price caps
The public have spoken: they don’t want Verisign to get the right to raise .com prices again. ICANN’s public comment period on the amended .com contract closed on Friday, with just shy of 9,000 comments which appear to be overwhelmingly aga...
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February 17, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, price caps
The Internet Commerce Association has released a new version of its semi-automated commenting tool, making it a bit easier for domainers and others to complain to ICANN about the proposed .com price increases. Surprisingly, the tool will also help you ...
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February 10, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, price caps
The more Ethos Capital protests that its plans for .org pricing are not as bad as its critics think, the less I believe it. Since November, the would-be buyer of Public Interest Registry has being publicly committing to maintain what it calls PIR’...
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February 10, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, price caps
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