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When you know that Ethos Capital (that wants to buy .org) was co-founded by an ex-ICANN CEO, and that it employs several other former high-ranking ICANN staff, then it starts to make a lot of sense.

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Corruption in centralized entities isn't a question of if - it's a question of when.

And centralization of decentralized entities isn't a question of if - it's a question of when.

Decentralization has so many downsides compared to centralization when things are going "right" that centralization has competitive advantages over decentralization.

Except that centralization will eventually give rise to corruption =p. It's and endless debate I guess. But for an organization like ICANN my vote goes to decentralization.

Fascinating. Source?

The wikipedia page has a bunch of sources in the references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos_Capital

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