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Facebook’s Zuckberberg Plans To Connect The World Using Internet.Org; Owned By Andrew Rosener Until July

August 21, 2013 by Michael Berkens

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late Tuesday announced on his Facebook  page, the formation of a partnership with Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Qualcomm  Ericsson, MediaTek and Opera to develop joint projects, share knowledge, and mobilize industry and governments to bring the world online,and to  make Internet access available to everyone on Earth.

The group is rolling this program out under the domain name Internet.org.

The domain name Internet.org was owned until recently by Andrew Rosener of Media Options Inc.

According to DomainTools.com Internet.org was owned by Andrew from  May 2013 until July 2013 when it transferred to  Daniel Thralow of Thralow Inc of Naples Florida.

The domain name went under privacy on August 14th, 2013.

I have reached out to Andrew for comment and will update the story when we get any additional information.

Internet.org goal is to bring Internet access to the 5 Billion people that don’t have it around the world.

Its pretty interesting that someone in the domain industry has an involvement in what may become one of the most talked about Internet projects of the year.

 

 

Filed Under: .Org, Domain Industry

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. BullS says

    August 21, 2013 at 2:04 am

    I am “disappointed” they did not use internet.pw/co/ws/xyz/la

    I wonder why…

  2. Grim says

    August 21, 2013 at 4:07 am

    “To everyone on earth” seems a bit formidable. Many of those people might prefer a good source of drinking water, a country with a stable economy that provides jobs that pay over $50 per month, or maybe even some food, over having access to the Internet. The problem with becoming wealthy (or just being comfortable in the mid to upper middle classes) is that sometimes it’s easy to forget that not everyone has it as nice as you do.

  3. BrianWick says

    August 21, 2013 at 7:56 am

    Bulls – you beat me to it 🙂
    But I will add .shop, .realestate, .cam, .cum, .xxx, .porm, .stroke.

    But good for Andrew – obviously playing his middleman role brokering a decent deal

  4. Dan @ DropLister says

    August 23, 2013 at 1:43 pm


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