[CPWG] A white knight on the horizon for .ORG?

[Bill Jouris]

 ISOC renewed their contract to run Dot Org for 10 years.  And then promptly turned around and sold the rights to someone else.  It's hard to have too much sympathy for them having lost out in that circumstance.  
If they didn't want to do the job, they didn't have to renew their contract.  And if they renewed in order to have an asset to sell, their good faith might be questioned. 
Bill Jouris
    On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 06:26:06 AM PST, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:  
 
 From what I can gather from what's been written so far, they're going to demand ICANN to simply re-delegate the registry to them and leave ISOC with nothing (though the actual proposal to ICANN may be different and indeed include compensation of some sort). Looks like they want to make the case that .ORG is a resource that needs a custodian rather than commodity that can be tossed around at will. It's comprised of an interesting group that includes ICANN's first president and the USG person in charge of handing TLD control to it.

- Evan

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 07:05, Jacqueline Morris <jam at jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:

Hi EvanDo you know if there is a monetary  value on this bid that is public yet? Will it give ISOC the endowment that it is looking for?
Jacqueline A. MorrisTechnology should be like oxygen: Ubiquitous, Necessary, Invisible and Free. (after Chris Lehmann )

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 3:27 AM Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

Looks like Esther Dyson and others are forming a co-operative to offer an alternative bid to Ethos:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/dot-org-private-equity-battle.html
It is unfortunate that the proposed alternative is yet another US corporation, though the bulk of .ORG registrants are American so this will likely be unchallenged.
Chance of ISOC accepting to even evaluate this alternative bid without pressure is slim given that many deals like Ethos' contain penalties for backing out. But the pressure is certainly there, and not abating. 

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