What the heck happened with .org?
> ... by 2018, ISOC was sitting on a pretty large ongoing revenue stream in the form of .org registration fees. However, ISOC management felt that having essentially all of their funding dependent on one revenue source was unwise and that actually running .org was a mismatch with ISOC’s main mission. Instead, they entered into a deal to sell PIR (and hence the .org contract) to a private equity firm called Ethos Capital, which is where things get interesting.<p>This sounds like a rather shortsighted decision, to give up a <i>very</i> reliable source of recurring revenue because you'd rather only have multiple smaller sources of revenue... why not both?