I mentioned in my last comment about this being outright corruption by the Americans involved.

Now it is time to mention the 1 positive that the USA has that other countries(visibly) don't:

> The willingness and ability to sue as a collective

.org is a domain used by everyone from Wikipedia, UN, Debian and your national dog shelter.

Private Equity cares only about one thing: making money. Anybody with a toe in the finance world knows that these are the same people that will do "hostile takeovers" to strip companies of their assets, pile on debt and push out a sale.

A class-action lawsuit targeting the PE firm(or parties involved in the sale of .org) and then pushing your State Attorneys to investigate these corrupt individuals at a personal level will have the desired effect that appeals to the moral high-ground won't.