Details in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658218 (Clarification: by $0-2 goes to Afilias

Details in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658218 (Clarification: by $0-2 goes to Afilias I meant that much goes to the profit of Afilias.) In addition to that, apparently $2 to Afilias (for-profit, actual registry operator) was a recent development[1]; it was more like $4 before 2018. And guess what, former PIR CEO (2011-2018) was Vice President of Discovery Services for Afilias (2018-2011).[2] (This was pointed out to me by [3].) So the shenanigans have been going on long before the monumental .org sale we're discussing here. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21658218 [1] https://domainnamewire.com/2019/10/28/pir-org-slashes-registry-fee-to-afilias-in-half-to-18-million/ https://domainnamewire.com/2019/10/28/pir-org-slashes-regist... [2] https://icannwiki.org/Brian_Cute https://icannwiki.org/Brian_Cute [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659856