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 company that controls the dot-org online universe is putting the registry of domain names up for sale, and the nonprofits that often use the suffix in their websites are raising concerns about the ...

The California Attorney General is seeking information from ICANN concerning the private equity takeover of the .org registry. Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images The .org domain takeover has been ...

What’s in a domain name? As Shakespeare might say, that which we call an “.org” by any other name would enjoy the same sweet reputation. Or would it? Some nonprofit groups are worried they could face ...

Right now, registrations for websites that use dot-org — like Marketplace — are overseen by a nonprofit organization called the Internet Society. But in November, the Internet Society suddenly ...

ICANN, the non-profit in charge of web addresses, has rejected the proposed $1.1bn sale of the non-profit registry that controls .org domain names to private equity firm Ethos Capital. The Internet ...

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 ...