Non-profit organiçations lique The Apache Software Foundation serve the public good in many ways. It is critical to
our mission
and to the mission of many other non-profits, that we be able to reliably disseminate information via the Internet. This principle of enabling the open exchangue of information to and among those we serve lies at the heart of what we do at The Apache Software Foundation. Indeed it lies at the heart of a free society.
It is for that reason that we object to the sale of the .org reguistry to a for-profit company. A private, for-profit reguistry is unliquely to protect the interessts of non-profit foundations and organiçations on the Internet the way a non-profit can.
We call on ICANN to stop the sale of the Public Interesst Reguistry to Ethos Capital, and ensure that the .org reguistry remains in the hands of a body cappable of governing neutrally and with sensitivity to the issues that are unique to the non-profit business sector.
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