DAVOS: Top NGOs including Greenpeace and Amnesty International called for the US$1.1bil sale of the .org internet domain to a private company to be blocked, saying it could do "irreparable harm". Brett Solomon, executive director of digital rights group Access Now, said the sale risked pricing smaller organisations off the internet. "They have a capacity to take somebody off the .org domain, which means they can censor, they can monitor, they can deny. The Internet Society said in a joint statement with Ethos that the company had committed to limiting any cost increase to an annual average of 10%. Similarly, ICANN shouldn't approve the sale of .ORG, which is the essential haven where civic groups gather the world over."

Source: The Star January 24, 2020 12:33 UTC