On Friday, a crowd gathered outside the Los Angeles office of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the governing body which oversees .ORG domain rights, to protest the sale of the .ORG domain to a private equity firm.

As CMF reported in December, the Internet Society reached an agreement with Ethos Capital, under which Ethos Capital would acquire Public Interest Registry (PIR), the company that owns the .ORG domain.

The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of this year. However, the sale has raised concerns among the nonprofit sector when it comes to the