Op-Ed: The sale of the .org registry to a private equity firm was just blocked. Here's why it matters

Op-Ed: The sale of the .org registry to a private equity firm was just blocked. Here's why it matters (via latimesopinion)

control of the .org domain, the part of the internet where 10 million websites reside.

Large organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross and the United Nations provide direct, immediate. Neighborhood and grassroots organizations have distributed meals and provided accommodation and friendship to the sick and vulnerable. Privatizing resources established for the public good has a poor track record — think hospitals, prison systems, aged-care facilities, postal services — and privatizing control of the .org .ORG domain would have been catastrophic.AdvertisementLast last year, when the Internet Society announced its plans to sell the .

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