A for-profit group might not end up controlling the .org domain after all. The ICANN Board has rejected Internet Society’s proposal to sell control of the .org domain and the Public Interest Registry, ...

ICANN, the organization that oversees domain name registries, blocked the sale of the dot org domain name registry to a private equity investment company. The decision to withhold consent for the sale ...

The nonprofit .org domain registry was acquired for $1.135 billion by a private equity firm after a series of odd events. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The private equity takeover of one of the ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit organization that oversees the Internet’s domain name system, has rejected a controversial proposal to sell the .org domain to a ...

Internet activists hit the streets to protest the .org registry takeover by private equity outside of ICANN's LA offices. Credit: Andrew Cowie/AFP/GettyImages A group of protesters took their ...

The battle over the future of .org domain names is over. For now. An organization called Icann, short for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, handles the internet's address book. It's ...

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 ...

ICANN, the nonprofit that oversees the Internet’s domain name system, has given itself another two weeks to decide whether to allow control of the .org domain to be sold to private equity firm Ethos ...