[nslocum]

This is very troubling. I can't imagine why this would be done if they had good intentions. Makes me want to check their financials.

Here's their most recent public tax forms which includes revenue, executive pay, board member info, and more

PIR: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/331...

ICANN: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/fy18-irs-tax-for...

Looks like they're paid quite generously.

[spir]

We should support public goods like the Ethereum Name Service https://ens.domains/

You can register a domain at https://app.ens.domains/

[riffic]

alternative DNS roots have been a thing for a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root

[p4bl0]

OpenNIC has been up for almost 20 years now: https://www.opennic.org/

[C1sc0cat]

Very - I recall around 2000 the registry .coop I worked for was one of the bidders for .org back then.

There where some very sketchy bidders one of whom seemed to want to convert to be for only a narrow US specific definition of non profit, The Red Cross would have been bared from having a .org for example.

There is a reason that ICANT is hated by a lot of those who have to deal with it.