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   :flan_bite: Michael W Lucas¹ (mwlucas@bsd.network)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 06:45:03 JST :flan_bite: Michael W Lucas¹

   If you have a .org domain name: go renew it now. For the full 10 years.

   Registration rights for .org were just bought by a private equity firm. And as part of that contract, the price caps were removed.

   Anything in .org will get much more expensive, soon.

   A ten year renewal will cost you a bit over a hundred bucks. Which is probably less than one year will cost you in the very near future.

   https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/

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     Dan Arel (Taylor’s Version) (danarel@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 06:46:51 JST Dan Arel (Taylor’s Version)

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     @mwlucas this is from 2019, FYI. Not just bought.

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     CautionWIP 🇨🇦+🏳️‍🌈= :CApride: (cautionwip@mstdn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 06:48:59 JST CautionWIP 🇨🇦+🏳️‍🌈= :CApride:

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     @mwlucas Well fuck. There goes the vague usefulness of being a .org on the web.

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     sarabeee (sarabeee@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 06:48:59 JST sarabeee

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     @cautionwip @mwlucas that was 3 years ago. "The sale was blocked by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in April 2020 on the basis that transfer of control of the domain to the private equity firm would create "unacceptable uncertainty" for non-profits that relied on the org domain." #wikipedia

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