[tszyn]

Sign a letter to Internet Society here: https://savedotorg.org/

Write to news outlets. If this blows up in the mainstream media, public pressure may be too high for them to go ahead with this deal.

[blackearl]

This comes across as alien language to the average person, I doubt the media finds it a juicy enough story to report on.

[rocqua]

"Backroom deals at a organisation that used to be governed by the US will probably be used to extort wikipedia for $100000 to keep the address wikipedia.org. The same extortion will be aimed at unicef.org, (add list of common .orgs here)"

That isn't alien language, and whilst not strictly true, it isn't stretching the truth more than the news already does habitually.

[bitxbitxbitcoin]

That isn't alien language and while it isn't strictly true, it captures the issue more sincerely than your typical clickbait. Nicely written.

[fanf2]

I think The Register counts as part of “the media” https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_s...