Re: [Wikimedia-l] .org TLD for sale?

2020-01-11 Thread Samuel Klein
Thank you (all!) for doing this. A necessary backdrop for whatever comes next. SJ  On Wed., Jan. 8, 2020, 8:23 p.m. Katherine Maher, wrote: > Hey folks, > > Quick update here. You may have seen some press coverage already, but this > week, a group of technologists, non-profits,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] .org TLD for sale?

2020-01-10 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 5:23 PM Katherine Maher wrote: > Quick update here. You may have seen some press coverage already, but this > week, a group of technologists, non-profits, policymakers, and internet > governance folks filed in California to create a cooperative membership > corporation,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] .org TLD for sale?

2020-01-08 Thread Katherine Maher
Hey folks, Quick update here. You may have seen some press coverage already, but this week, a group of technologists, non-profits, policymakers, and internet governance folks filed in California to create a cooperative membership corporation, whose purpose would be to administer the .ORG domain

Re: [Wikimedia-l] .org TLD for sale?

2019-11-24 Thread Samuel Klein
I wrote up a short summary. who other than ICANN has to approve this sale? http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-capture/ On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:13 PM Erik Moeller wrote: > Thanks for sharing this, Andy. This appears to be a major governance > failure on the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] .org TLD for sale?

2019-11-23 Thread Erik Moeller
Thanks for sharing this, Andy. This appears to be a major governance failure on the part of ICANN (sadly, not for the first time). I'm glad Wikimedia is among the first orgs on this list. I don't think it's too late to stop this, especially as all evidence points to corrupt inside