[governance] Washington Post editorial board comments on .ORG sale

[Ayden Férdeline]

Dear all,

The editorial board of the Washington Post has now weighed in on the sale of .ORG with this very balanced piece:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-end-of-dot-org-as-we-know-it-feels-a-lot-like-giving-up/2020/01/22/49d0fb30-37c3-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html

This is a story of corporate squabbling, but it’s also a story of squabbling over the reality that the Internet has become corporate. Ethos makes the point that the Web is evolving and dot-org needs to evolve with it. More money for the registry means more ability to innovate and to lure in additional registrants with those innovations that will, in turn, produce more money. This is a virtuous cycle for any good capitalist, but it looks like a vicious one to many Internet pioneers who envisioned a space that liberated its occupants from the mundane commercialism of everyday life — and who bemoan that it has instead become its own “industrial complex.”

Ayden Férdeline
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