If you didn't see this coming, you weren't paying attention.

https://domainnamewire.com/2020/07/...

ICANN not believe this shit!

What would have the ramifications have been if .org had been bought?

@Demolishun
.Org domains, which are preferred by charitable orgs, some schools, many OS projects and similar would be controlled by a private company with no legislative oversight and would be immediately jump in price.

Domains in general have been a shit show of politics and attempts at international money grabs since the US govt gave up control.

Oh damning hell.

holy grail

@Frederick
This will indeed smoke test who has internalized enough corporatist bullshit to find this situation ethical or desirable.

@Demolishun 👌 pun, beat me to it 😄

Motherfucker.

This is one of the reasons I like HNS (handshake/namebase)

Wait, what