<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div id="message"></div>Is there any TLD that's safe - for now, at least - from such an interference?<br id="br3"><br id="br3"><br id="br3"><div id="signature"></div><div id="content"><br> ---- On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:43:00 -0600 <b> athompso@athompso.net </b> wrote ----<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On 2019-11-26 10:29, Glen Ditchfield wrote:<br>> As you may have heard, ICANN removed the price caps on .org domains, <br>> then<br>> quietly decided to sell the .org registry to a private equity firm <br>> linked to a<br>> former ICANN CEO and several American billionaires (https://<br>> www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/26/org_selloff_internet/).<br>> <br>> So, a bunch of respectable organizations have started a petition to <br>> stop that,<br>> at <a href="https://savedotorg.org/" target="_blank">https://savedotorg.org/</a> . Signing might help.<br><br><br>Given the absolute failure of governance at ICANN, which seems to be <br>spreading to NRO, IANA, etc., I think "Save dotOrg" has about as much <br>chance of success as "Save Concordia" did locally, no matter the <br>justness of the cause.<br><br>What *would* be a good idea, though, despite the "rewarding bad <br>behaviour" aspect of it, would be renew any .org domains you have, NOW, <br>for the maximum term (10 years). Several industry observers are <br>expecting prices to rise >10x, so you'll probably be saving a good chunk <br>of money by doing it now.<br><br>-Adam<br>_______________________________________________<br>Roundtable mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Roundtable@muug.ca" target="_blank">Roundtable@muug.ca</a><br><a href="https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable" target="_blank">https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div><br></body></html>