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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by Aperocky on Saturday November 30, 2019 @12:31AM (#21668731)
It depends on the economic benefit they can extract and get away with.
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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by WillPostForFood on Saturday November 30, 2019 @02:56AM (#21669060)
You can extract more value by squeezing the people who need it than by devaluing it by selling .org domains to scammers and phishers.
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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by sojmq on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:28AM (#21669677)
You can register a .org domain no matter what purpose you give to it. Scammers and phishers have always been able to buy .org domains.
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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:32AM (#21669685)
Long-term? Yes. Short-term? Not necessarily. And it's a rare market entity that prefers long-term value over short-term gains.
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Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B by intended on Saturday November 30, 2019 @03:18AM (#21669105)
You do both. As you squeeze it stops being viable for legitimate players.

Then the scammers dominate.

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