This is written in a very slanted and somewhat alarmist manner, although the chronology is (mostly) correct. There’s a heavy reliance on domainers and their (direct and indirect) handiwork, which contributes to the overheated tone and rush to judgment imbued in this piece.

This is useful as a timeline.  I’d advise adding other sources and a critical eye to understand the facts.

The sale raises some serious questions and concerns, and the optics suck from many if not most perspectives.  But we need to know more before arriving at our conclusions.

Greg

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 3:16 PM Marita Moll <mmoll@ca.inter.net> wrote:

Since I am trapped in an airport waiting hours for a plane, I am having more time than usual to research the info out there on this sale. This is an amazing chronology of all the things that led up to this crisis by Sam Klein, well known advocate for free universal access to knowledge and tools and veteran wikipedian.

http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-capture-the-dot-org-heist/

Marita

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