LOS ANGELES (AP) — The company that controls the dot-org universe is trying to sell the online registry to an investment firm for more than $1 billion, drawing opposition from activists who protested ...

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 ...

Esther Dyson served as the founding chair of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers from 1998 to 2000. She serves on the boards for a number of nonprofit organizations that use ...

A coalition of nonprofits and free-speech advocates say they are considering all options, including legal action, in their fight to halt the proposed sale of the infrastructure behind the internet’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) — After widespread opposition, the organization overseeing internet domain names has voted against the $1.1 billion sale of the dot-org online registry to an investment firm. The board ...

The non-profit organization that manages the dot ORG domain registry has been sold to a for-profit investment firm. Some are fearful that the cost of dot ORG domains will rise because the non-profit ...

Charities can now register websites under a new digital domain: dot-giving. The Public Interest Registry — the nonprofit that operates the popular dot-org domain — created the new domain with the goal ...

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 ...

(CN) — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) rejected the proposed sale of the dot-org domain, a decision hailed as a victory by nonprofits wary of a private equity firm ...

A private equity firm wants to buy the internet domain used by nonprofits. A group of online pioneers says it is not the place to maximize profits. By Steve Lohr Two months ago, Ethos Capital, a ...

You don’t have to be a nonprofit — or meet any special criteria at all — to secure a website in this respected domain. By Sam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv Dr. Wineburg is an education professor at Stanford ...