Did you hear that ICANN (the organization that manages the top-level domain names we all use, like .com, .net, .edu, .gov, and so on) was going to sell .org to a private equity firm?
It almost sounded like an Onion headline, but it turned out to be true.
Well, thank the internet gods, ICANN has decided not to sell .org after all.
This rejection didn't come from nowhere. Over a thousand organizations and 50,000 people submitted comments in opposition to the sale, including me.
But still. Why do we have to spend our time signing petitions and sending in comments on obviously ridiculous things like this? As one person asked, in response to the linked Twitter post, the thing that I wondered:
Why were they able to sell it in the first place? It should be owned by the public.
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