[kictanet] The sale of .ORG

[Ali Hussein]

Sidney

Thanks for sharing. This is akin to selling public land assigned for public
good to a private developer.

What is going on? And what is ICANN's response to this?

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On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 1:12 PM Sidney Ochieng via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Have you all be keeping tabs on the sale of the the .org TLD?
> Catch up here:
> Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity
> firm, price caps axed:
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
> Please take some time to oppose this here: https://savedotorg.org/
>
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> Regards,
> Sidney
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