The battle over the future of .org domain names is over. For now. An organization called Icann, short for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, handles the internet's address book. It's ...

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, ...

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A private equity firm has acquired the .org domain registry months after ICANN lifted the long-standing price cap on the domain extension. Credit: Getty Images A private equity firm will soon run the ...

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 ...

Sedo, a domain marketplace, has brokered the largest sale of a .org domain to date. Brokered on behalf of National A-1 Advertising, the domain poker.org was sold to PokerCompany.com for the sum of $1 ...

Esther Dyson served as the founding chair of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers from 1998 to 2000. She serves on the boards for a number of nonprofit organizations that use ...

The old dream of an internet run in the public interest has long dissipated under pressure from huge corporations seeking to profit from what has become a worldwide information utility. But one corner ...

Charities can now register websites under a new digital domain: dot-giving. The Public Interest Registry — the nonprofit that operates the popular dot-org domain — created the new domain with the goal ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The future of one of the internet’s most irreproachable neighbourhoods has just been thrown into doubt — and ...

The Public Internet Registry, a subsidiary of a nonprofit called the Internet Society, has managed the .org domain since 2002. Earlier this year, ICANN asked for public comment on a new contract for ...