[CPWG] . NGO

[Evan Leibovitch]

I floated this exact idea on another mailing list Dec 11....

that as a condition of acquiring .ORG. Ethos divested of .NGO/.ONG to a
community body, and then provided a fund to assist the brand-altering costs
of any nonprofits that wanted to move. In the forum it was presented, it
was flat out rejected as a half measure  when the objective was to stop the
sale --- so I never pursued it further. In fact, since .NGO already has a
vetting process in place (which could be modified in order to scale) it
could more reliably be a genuine no-freeloader place for nonprofits.

- Evan


On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 10:00, Jonathan Zuck <JZuck at innovatorsnetwork.org>
wrote:

> Working on an outline for a response from us on this whole ORG thing and
> had a crazy idea. What if we suggest that PIR be asked to divest itself of
> NGO and award that to the new nonprofit. Right now PIR have a kind of
> monopoly on the field with those two as well as FOUNDATION.
>
> We've had a lot of discussion about making sure there is a public interest
> driven registry and a safe place for the nonprofit community. NGO already
> has a lot of those requirements in place and could be relaunched with a
> more specific set of commitments in the contract. We could even figure out
> how to minimize the NGO presence in the secondary market.
>
> PIR having NGO as a competitor might help keep them in line as well.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jonathan Zuck
> Executive Director
> Innovators Network Foundation
> www.Innovatorsnetwork.org
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-- 
Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
@evanleibovitch or @el56
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