[governance] FW: [article] Did ISOC leave $1 billion on the table?

[Stephanie Perrin]

All of the recent entrails examination is interesting, but I do agree with Milton here...we cannot complain about commercialization and then say by the way, that was not a high enough price.  So better not to refer to this analysis in anything we write.

It is fair to question whether this was a good process, but the line is thin and we don't want to cross it.

cheers

Stephanie Perrin

On 2019-12-02 16:10, Mueller, Milton L wrote:

I think the analysis in this piece is rubbish.
It assumes e.g. a leveraged buyout using borrowed money.
But set that aside for the moment.

It is inconsistent to jump up and down and scream that the sale of .org constitutes a horrible commercialization of the internet, and then turn around and complain that ISOC didn’t get enough capital for it.
What exactly is our goal in raising a stink about this sale? Is just to make noise? Is it to get a higher price for ISOC? Or is it to get better protections for .ORG registrants? I hope it’s the latter.

Dr. Milton L Mueller
School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
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A venture capitalist and ex-Mckinsey consultant offers some thoughts on the ISOC sale of PIR, and concludes that ISOC has undervalued PIR by about US $1 billion. This analysis is not perfect (it seems to conflate revenue with earnings) but is interesting nonetheless:

https://lancewiggs.com/2019/12/01/did-isoc-leave-1-billion-on-the-table/

Best wishes,
Ayden Férdeline



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