dotOrg registry sold off for $1.35 billion

Thread starter Prashant Sharan
Start date Dec 1, 2019

Prashant Sharan

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Dec 1, 2019

Internet Society reveals the price it is selling out for.

On a webinar today, Internet Society has purportedly disclosed that Ethos Capital will pay $1.135 billion to acquire the .org registry from it:

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