I floated this exact idea on another mailing list Dec 11....

that as a condition of acquiring .ORG. Ethos divested of .NGO/.ONG to a community body, and then provided a fund to assist the brand-altering costs of any nonprofits that wanted to move. In the forum it was presented, it was flat out rejected as a half measure when the objective was to stop the sale --- so I never pursued it further. In fact, since .NGO already has a vetting process in place (which could be modified in order to scale) it could more reliably be a genuine no-freeloader place for nonprofits.

- Evan

On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 10:00, Jonathan Zuck <JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org> wrote:

Working on an outline for a response from us on this whole ORG thing and had a crazy idea. What if we suggest that PIR be asked to divest itself of NGO and award that to the new nonprofit. Right now PIR have a kind of monopoly on the field with those two as well as FOUNDATION.

We've had a lot of discussion about making sure there is a public interest driven registry and a safe place for the nonprofit community. NGO already has a lot of those requirements in place and could be relaunched with a more specific set of commitments in the contract. We could even figure out how to minimize the NGO presence in the secondary market.

PIR having NGO as a competitor might help keep them in line as well.

Thoughts?

Jonathan Zuck
Executive Director
Innovators Network Foundation
www.Innovatorsnetwork.org

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