Immediately after we learned on 21 November 2019 of the troubling news surrounding the domain name .org, ICT4Peace expressed its dismay about these developments and joined the movement to stop the sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to Ethos Capital.
Not having been directly part of the Internet Governance processes and Committees and their many meetings a since WSIS Tunis in 2005, we at ICT4Peace are still bewildered, to say the least, how this could have happen ?
David Kaye quite rightly said: “a lot of people have a lot of questions to answer about this highly opaque and troubling deal”.
Esther Dyson: “As founding chairman of #ICANN, I’m appalled… This is not what we were working for. ICANN races towards regulatory [and financial] capture: the great .ORG heist”.
For a better understanding of what is at stake here and what these quite complicated institutions and procedures are we recommend to look at the updates of the excellent Blog Post by Samuel Klein: ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .ORG heist
http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-capture-the-dot-org-heist/