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.
美国博物馆协会(American Museum Association)、女童子军(Girl Scouts)、帮助老弱群体的上门送餐服务Meals on Wheels、维基百科(Wikimedia)以及欧洲气候基金会(European Climate Foundation)有什么共同点?答案是它们的网页都以“.org”结尾,这个域名是互联网上少数几个直到最近才屈从于私营部门盈利模式的领域之一。但非政府组织现在反对将这个顶级域(类似于公司的“.com”和大学的“.edu”)出售给私募股权公司Ethos Capital。