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A for-profit group might not end up controlling the .org domain after all. The ICANN Board has rejected Internet Society’s proposal to sell control of the .org domain and the Public Interest Registry, ...

Private equity firm Ethos Capital has hit a snag in its bid to control .org registration. Credit: Getty Images / iStockphoto Remember last year when it looked like a private equity firm would gain ...

Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) extension .ORG has bucked the general trend towards shrinkage among the legacy gTLDs (.COM, .NET, .INFO, etc.) to not only grow, but to hit an important milestone in ...

RESTON, Va., April 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit stewards of the .ORG domain, opened the nomination period for its eighth annual .ORG Impact Awards on ...

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (AP) -- The group overseeing the Internet's address system said Monday it has selected the nonprofit Internet Society to manage domain names ending in ".org" starting next year.

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Nonprofits anxiously await the fate of the dot-org domain, on the brink of being sold to the shadowy private equity firm Ethos Capital. It’s a move they fear will stifle ...