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A for-profit group might not end up controlling the .org domain after all. The ICANN Board has rejected Internet Society’s proposal to sell control of the .org domain and the Public Interest Registry, ...

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (AP) -- The group overseeing the Internet's address system said Monday it has selected the nonprofit Internet Society to manage domain names ending in ".org" starting next year.

Private equity firm Ethos Capital has hit a snag in its bid to control .org registration. Credit: Getty Images / iStockphoto Remember last year when it looked like a private equity firm would gain ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit organization that oversees the Internet’s domain name system, has rejected a controversial proposal to sell the .org domain to a ...

Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) extension .ORG has bucked the general trend towards shrinkage among the legacy gTLDs (.COM, .NET, .INFO, etc.) to not only grow, but to hit an important milestone in ...

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit stewards of the .ORG domain, opened the nomination period for its eighth annual ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Nonprofits anxiously await the fate of the dot-org domain, on the brink of being sold to the shadowy private equity firm Ethos Capital. It’s a move they fear will stifle ...

VeriSign and the Internet Society on Friday said they are delaying the technical transfer of the .org domain for nearly a month to give companies selling .org addresses more time to comply with new ...

The deal for the internet domain for nonprofit organizations had set off fierce opposition. By Steve Lohr A private equity firm will not gain control of dot-org, the digital real estate that is home ...

After being administered by for-profit companies since its inception in 1995, the .org Internet domain for organizations and groups is now being overseen by the nonprofit Public Interest Registry.