Domain sale could do 'irreparable harm' to millions of charities, NGOs warn

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, Isabelle Axelsson and German Luisa Neubauer take part in a climate strike protest during the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Friday (Jan 24). - Reuters

DAVOS: Top NGOs including Greenpeace and Amnesty International called for the US$1.1bil sale of the .org internet domain to a private company to be blocked, saying it could do "irreparable harm".

Registrations for the millions of nonprofits whose websites end in .org are overseen by the Internet Society (ISOC), but in November the US nonprofit announced it was selling control to a year-old private equity firm called Ethos Capital.