How would an "expert" have approached this topic of trust in .ORG? I'm not trying to be a jerk here but living in DC for 30 years, I've seen LOTS of .ORG sites that were fronts for corporations or other disingenuous actors. I know Evan is upset about the fact that it's being written now, in the context of this controversy, but from the perspective of trust, are folks (are WE?!) right to be trusting of .ORG domains in their current form? On 12/5/19, 1:35 PM, "John McCormac" <jmcc@hosterstats.com> wrote: On 05/12/2019 18:22, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > It's not wrong, but its context is disingenuous. > > At its superficial level it's fear-mongering (you can't automatically > trust a domain just 'cause it's in dot-org, a characteristic common to > almost all TLDs). > > At a deeper level it's an attempt to discredit (or at least dilute) the > massive and nearly universal opposition to the PIR conversion by > non-profit organizations. > > On the whole I consider it a FUD piece. It is worse than a FUD piece. It is knocking copy with token people who might appear to have some expertise but are, in reality, non-expert. It is classic negative PR. All that's missing is the "Some people say". Regards...jmcc -- ********************************************************** John McCormac * e-mail: jmcc@hosterstats.com MC2 * web: http://www.hosterstats.com/ 22 Viewmount * Domain Registrations Statistics Waterford * Domnomics - the business of domain names Ireland * https://amzn.to/2OPtEIO IE * Skype: hosterstats.com **********************************************************