ICANN Seeks to Extend by 2 Months Ethos/PIR Review, After California AG Request
ICANN seeks to extend to April 20 from Feb. 17 review of the Public Interest Registry's sale by the Internet Society to Ethos Capital, after the California Attorney General's Office sought the delay and asked for more information. ICANN previously…
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extended by a month review of the deal said to be worth $1 billion-plus (see 2001210034). The AG office asked questions to "analyze the impact to the nonprofit community, including to ICANN," which as a California nonprofit is regulated by that office. ICANN asked PIR for the additional time "to conclude both the CA-AGO and ICANN reviews," the domain names overseer announced Thursday. "ICANN will continue to conduct thorough due diligence in its consideration of the proposed change of control and related conversion of PIR from a nonprofit to a for-profit. PIR is currently a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation. As part of the proposed sale, PIR proposed to the Pennsylvania Attorney General that it be turned into a for-profit entity." A PIR spokesperson emailed that it got the letter, is reviewing it "and will work with ICANN to address the questions." Other parties to the deal involving .org domain name registrar PIR didn't comment Friday, and ICANN didn't answer questions.