Niels ten Oever

Niels ten Oever is a PhD candidate with the DATACTIVE Research Group at the Media Studies and Political Science department of the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on how values and norms, like human rights, get inscribed in the Internet infrastructure through its transnational governance.

Private equity firm procures .org from the Internet Society, or: How the public interest got sold-out (again)

ISOC has sold off something that was not theirs to sell off in the first place; a domain run by a not-for-profit based on the public interest, supporting the public interest.

By Niels ten Oever

/ 28 Nov 2019

Private equity firm procures .org from the Internet Society, or: How the public interest got sold-out (again)