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Sounds like a cash-out or a kickback. Still not worth any more money than ISOC was already making. ISOC should listen and row back on this decision.

There are more than ten thousand signatures on https://savedotorg.org/.

That's seriously a tiny drop in the bucket in terms of total internet usage.

That's only because most internet users don't even know what a domain is.

Then why would they care if the domain is .org, .com, or .xyz?

This whole concern sounds like a tempest in a teapot.

It matters, because large scale domain migration would have very serious consequences for users even if they didn't know what a domain is.