What do the American Museum Association, the Girl Scouts, Meals on Wheels, Wikimedia and the European Climate Foundation have in common? Their online home is on .org, one of the few areas of the internet that, until recently, had not succumbed to private sector profit models. But NGOs are now objecting to the sale of that top-level domain (similar to .com for companies and .edu for universities) to Ethos Capital , a private equity firm.
美國博物館協會(American Museum Association)、女童子軍(Girl Scouts)、幫助老弱羣體的上門送餐服務Meals on Wheels、維基百科(Wikimedia)以及歐洲氣候基金會(European Climate Foundation)有什麼共同點?答案是它們的網頁都以「.org」結尾,這個域名是網路上少數幾個直到最近才屈從於民營部門盈利模式的領域之一。但非政府組織現在反對將這個頂級域(類似於公司的「.com」和大學的「.edu」)出售給私募股權公司Ethos Capital。