[beprogrammed]

Agreed, that's why I never use or recommend any else use any of the domains run by private operators, just asking for troubles like the above. The attempted sale of org was scary.

Which is all very unfortunate because some of those TLDs are quite nice, like .forum. What a mess we've gotten ourselves into.

Should have been kept as a public service, but no putting the genie back in the bottle now. Only way out of this mess is a distributed system, but I can't imagine what that would like without a massive proliferation of competing services.