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