Techdirt Podcast Episode 234: Mike Godwin Defends Selling .ORG
from the pros-and-cons dept
We're back! It's been a lull over the holidays and we've gone a while without new podcast episodes, but now we've got several lined up for the coming weeks — and today we kick things off with a very interesting discussion. Many of you probably know about the controversy and concern over the Internet Society's sale of the .ORG domain registry to a private equity firm, but one prominent defender of the deal is ISOC trustee Mike Godwin, and today he joins us to explain his reasoning and try to convince Mike that the sale is a good idea.
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You're wrong M Godwin
PIR is essentially selling itself to itself, under and different name.
Stop trying to make excuses for those people.
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Selling anything to a private equity firm is a tragic mistake. As soon as "private equity firm" became the buyer, any reasoning that followed in favor of selling it was mooted.
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Its not just any private equity firm, but it is a private equity firm made up of former ICANN/PIR executives.
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People who ran off the second they finished setting up to sell it.
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Selling might have been a thing for which i could be convinced, but the whole how and who is beyond shady AF.
None of the internet governance bodies are what they used to be, and they were better, once upon a time. Still was never down with the whole Network Solutions and Verisign deals of the early days, though.
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Seriously, if they do something too bad to it then just migrate your DNS settings and investments to OPENNIC
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Sure. Any of the alternate namespaces will be fine. All we need is browser and OS settings which will choose which system we are using for us. Balkanize all the things!
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the comment almost writes itself.
What a nazi.
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Mike Godwin, noted conservative think tank scholar or w/e tf they call themselves now.
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Worried about listening to this
I've sometimes disagreed with Godwin, but I've always liked him. I worry after listening to him arguing for this that might not be possible anymore.
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I think it was a respectful discussion, so I don't think you'll end up upset with him in the end. I didn't. He didn't convince me, but I thought he made some interesting and legitimate points that I had not considered before.
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Mike Godwin?!?
This thread is now officially Hitlered.
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