Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, May 1st, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, I can finally does the right thing on that whole dot-org mess earnings from Apple and Amazon could

Amazon face actual perjury charges Reddit walks back those chat rooms and of

course the weekend long read suggestions here's what you missed today in the world of

tech. From the sometimes you win some sometimes good sense actually prevails department

icon has officially voted to reject the sale of the dot-org registry to that private equity firm.

We've covered this a couple times on the show, the shady way, the dot-org registry mysteriously

found itself on the auction block quoting from the New York Times.

The Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers which oversees the Internet

naming system decided on Thursday night to veto the sale of the rights to the dot-org

registry to Ethos Capital, which had offered more than $1 billion for it.

Martin Boderman, the chair of ICONCON wrote in a blog post that after weighing all the

considerations rejecting ethos's proposed bid was quote reasonable and

the right thing to do end quote a little bit of background in case you'd forgotten

quoting again the internet society saw the sale to ethos capital as a way to gain an

endowment to fund its operations and get out of the business of operating.org, which it wanted to do for some time.

In an interview this week, Andrew Sullivan, chief executive of the Internet Society, said the Ethos Capital Bid was one of several proposals it had received and one that appeared to combine people who had internet experience with the financial resources to help.org grow and prosper.

We viewed it as a good transaction and that would be good for everyone Mr Sullivan said end quote

well yeah a lot of people smelled something fishy going on here and at the very least saw big money

swooping in to capture the value of what a lot of people had always considered to be

a public good held in the public trust sort of as inventor of the web himself Tim Berners-Lee

tweeted, phew that sale would have been a travesty of governance of public things end quote

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