Neowin News Feed for: Org

SaveDotOrg campaign succeeds as ICANN rejects .ORG sale

Paul Hill — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:38:01 +0000

ICANN has rejected the sale of PIR which runs .ORG to Ethos Capital. It comes after months of campaigning by non-profits who said the sale could lead to their financial exploitation. Read more...

NHS says its contact tracing app will be transparent

Paul Hill — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:40:01 +0000

The NHS has outlined how it's ensuring that its contact tracing app is transparent, secure, and usable. It said an assurance board containing experts was set up to ensure the app stays within bounds. Read more...

EFF launches SaveDotOrg campaign as Public Interest Registry sale announced

Paul Hill — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 15:48:01 +0000

The EFF and several other entities have penned a letter to ISOC to cancel to the sale of PIR, which controls .ORG domains, to Ethos Capital. They believe it would negatively affect NGOs. Read more...

British public against 10 year prison terms for online piracy

Paul Hill — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:36:01 +0000

The results of a public consultation carried out by the UK Government show that the majority of people are against an increase in the sentence for online piracy from two to ten years. Read more...

.org registry vanishes into thin air

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 May 2003 13:54:12 +0000

The registry for all .org domains appears to have collapsed - meaning that all the details of who owns any .org domain are unobtainable. We can't be sure when it vanished but it would have... Read more...

.org handover 'successful'

Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:05:59 +0000

The handover of the management of the .org top-level internet domain from VeriSign Inc to the Public Internet Registry, an affiliate of the Internet Society, was successfully completed over the weekend, PIR said yesterday. ... Read more...