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, ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the central governing body that oversees domains on the internet, has voted to reject a proposal that would have seen .org domains come ...

ICANN, the organization that oversees domain name registries, blocked the sale of the dot org domain name registry to a private equity investment company. The decision to withhold consent for the sale ...

The sale of the organization that manages the dot org domain name registry has hit a snag. ICANN, the organization that oversees domain names announced that it is requesting further information about ...

Something good has happened for once: The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers voted to block its partner organization, the Internet Society, from selling off control over the .org domain ...

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The nonprofit .org domain registry was acquired for $1.135 billion by a private equity firm after a series of odd events. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The private equity takeover of one of the ...