<div dir="auto">Very much agree with you Ayden, ICANN should listen to the majority who are calling for total shutdown of this sales. <div dir="auto">Not everything that glitters is gold, </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 8, 2019, 10:21 PM Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:ayden@ferdeline.com">ayden@ferdeline.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear all,<br></div><div><br></div><div>The founding chair of the board of the Public Interest Registry has published an Op-Ed today stating (emphasis added), <i>"For those who care about the future of internet governance, the preservation of the .ORG domain should be a top priority. Not every piece of the internet should be privatized, not every domain put on the auction block. <b>ICANN should block this sale and if does not, national governments, including the United States, should weigh in.</b> This may be the last opportunity to preserve the internet that many of us still believe in."</i><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/473537-save-the-org-domain-and-all-it-symbolizes" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/473537-save-the-org-domain-and-all-it-symbolizes</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Given the author's credentials and knowledge of what the Public Interest Registry was intended to represent, I think this piece is very significant.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,<br></div><div>Ayden Férdeline <br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>---<br>
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