The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org -

[FlappyBat]

The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org

The Americam Prospect Article (Archive)


TL;DR: .org may be bought by a company which can raise the annual fee for .org registration to whatever it wants. .org is mostly used by non-profits so this is bad.

 

[Secret Asshole]

All Vulture Capitalists should get the bullet.

 

[Sped Xing]

I used to have a .org website; no cyber police came for me.

 

[Xarpho]

Obama sold out ICANN in his second term. Where was the whining about the Internet being "spoiled" then?

 

[Kacho]

I see no problem with this. Nonprofits and NGOs are criminal outfits and having to pay a little more for their domains is the least of what should happen to them.

 

[???]

Distributed internet when?

 

[WhoBusTank69]

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

I used to have a .org website; no cyber police came for me.

You were probably reported, but all reports go to /dev/null

Internet Police

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The only .org website I used in recent years is for porn.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

The only .org website I used in recent years is for porn.

It has Suzy in name?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It has Suzy in name?

No, but I'll give you a hint. It's the favourite website of one kurt eischenwald.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

No, but I'll give you a hint. It's the favourite website of one kurt eichenbald.

ok den

 

[Null]

Please don't quote entire articles outside of A&H as that is considered Plagiarism by Bing, our overlord.

As for the takeover, feelsbadman, but as far as the article goes it's better for government regulation in something that has otherwise served the Internet well and very freely.

 

[FlappyBat]

Please don't quote entire articles outside of A&H as that is considered Plagiarism by Bing, our overlord.

As for the takeover, feelsbadman, but as far as the article goes it's better for government regulation in something that has otherwise served the Internet well and very freely.

It got moved from A&H to here.

 

[Sam Losco]

Null: Tells the government of New Zealand to fuck off, then capitulates to Bing.

 

[XYZpdq]

so how would this affect any .org domains you already own as stupid jokes

 

[Dante Alighieri]

so how would this affect any .org domains you already own as stupid jokes

It probably doesn't since this seems fearmongered to hell.