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Questions linger over what is going on inside DNS overseer ICANN has halted the proposed $1.1bn sale of the .org registry to an unknown private equity firm, claiming this was "the right thing to do."...

The controversial deal would saddle the .org registry with $300 million in debt.

Ethos Capitalthe private equity firm poised to purchase the .ORG domain registry for $1.1 billionand Public Interest Registry (PIR, the entity Ethos wants to buy) have been attempting to respond to the concerns raised by the .ORG community. These after-the-fact changes just make clear that while...

DNS overseer gets letter demanding documents about controversial registry sale The California State Attorney General's Office (CA-OAG) sent a letter last week to DNS overlord ICANN asking for confidential information about the planned sale of the .org

Once appearing to be a done deal, the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity is facing new delays and new opposition, after a successful protest in front of ICANN last week by nonprofits and an intervention by the California Attorney General . Privat