See https://savedotorg.org/
A private equity firm called Ethos Capital is planning to buy the .org top-level domain from the non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR), which manages .org (with 10.5 million domains), for $1.135 billion or about $108 per domain. With a monopoly on the .org TLD, Ethos can increase the renewal fees (currently about $10/yr wholesale) to whatever will maximize their profit, whether it is $100/yr or even $1000/yr (which sounds absurd until you consider that a .car domain renewal is $2400 per year because that's what the market will bear). To appease critics, they say they will try to keep increases to 10% per year, but there is no guarantee of that. Even 10% per year is much higher than inflation and doubles every 7 years. I added my name to this petition: https://act.eff.org/action/help-stop-the-sale-of-public-interest-registry-to-a-private-equity-firm I also added Metamath as one of the organizations opposing the sale: https://www.eff.org/pages/coalition-letter-internet-society In the meantime, I renewed the metamath.org domain until Feb. 3, 2029 at about $13 per year, so hopefully we are safe until then, unless the new owners find a contractual loophole to increase the price. Norm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metamath" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/metamath/c5574fdd-6098-4a94-a5ce-f99bff9e1e5b%40googlegroups.com.
