Planned purchase by a private equity firm leads to worries that low-cost domain option could become prohibitively expensive
Websites using .org domain names fear they could lose their web addresses as intense backlash over the domain registry’s proposed sale continues.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the not-for-profit organization that coordinates the internet’s domain name system, is deciding whether control of .org will be sold to a private equity firm about which little is known.
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