ICANN Reviewing Sale of .org Domain Registry to Private Equity Firm

ICANN is reviewing the pending sale of the .org domain manager from a nonprofit to a private equity firm and says it could try to block the transfer. The .org domain is managed by the Public Internet Registry (PIR), which is a subsidiary of the Internet Society, a nonprofit that is trying to sell PIR to private equity firm Ethos Capital.

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