Public Interest Registry

Public Interest Registry
Company typeNon-profit
IndustryInternet, Domain registry
Founded2002 in Reston, Virginia
FounderLynn St. Amour, Hal Lubsen, Ram Mohan, David Maher
Key people
Jon Nevett, Judy Song-Marshall, Paul Diaz, Brian Cimbolic, Elizabeth Szabo, Anand Vora, Mary Cornwell, Rick Wilhelm
ParentInternet Society Edit this on Wikidata
Websitepir.org

Public Interest Registry is a not-for-profit based in Reston, Virginia, created by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage the .ORG top-level domain. It took over operation of .ORG in January 2003 and launched the .NGO and .ONG top-level domains in March 2015.[1]

In November 2019, it was announced the Public Interest Registry would be sold by the Internet Society to private equity investment firm Ethos Capital for 1.135 billion USD,[2] but in April 2020, ICANN decided to reject the sale.[3]

  1. ^ "TLD Startup Information". ICANN. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ^ "The Internet Society & Public Interest Registry: A New Era of Opportunity (PIR's press release)". .ORG. 2019-11-13. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  3. ^ "ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)". Archived from the original on 2020-05-01. Retrieved 2020-05-01.