ICANN board votes to reject .org registry sale to private equity firm Ethos Capital

The ICANN Board today decided to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN.

This means the dot-org domain WILL NOT be sold to the private equity firm Ethos Capital.

You can read the official announcement from ICANN here. It's a little hard to follow, unless you're used to reading legalese.

After a thorough evaluation process, the #ICANN Board is withholding consent to the request for a change of control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR). Read Board Chair Maarten Botterman's blog for more information > https://t.co/qz8ub99lOt pic.twitter.com/oFrM0pulyM

— ICANN (@ICANN) May 1, 2020

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