ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
The time of .org as 'trusted' is over.When a private equity investment firm buys something, they plan to extract value, they don't create value.Ethos Capital was formed in 2019 [1]. Price caps were lifted before it was sold [2]. Combined with the billion plus valuation, something is sketchy. Even if you trust this sale, they could even resell it to a less trustworthy owner after increasing rates making a return on investment, that is probably the plan..orgs will be filled with extortion to good .orgs, and fake .orgs will be created which will create distrust about existing .orgs, and allow propaganda to spread.There will be tons of malware and phishing going on when people think they are on trustable domains.If they could buy .gov they would. Just more of the turn of the internet to authoritarian/corporate control over the internet's anti-authoritarian/public/independent roots.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos_Capital[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/private-equity-f...