Six members of the US Congress have sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), urging the organisation to reject the sale of the .org registry to Ethos capital. Such a sale, it is argued, 'is against the public interest and would violate ICANN's commitment to 'preserve and enhance ... the operational stability, reliability, security ... and openness of the DNS and the Internet'. Other reasons outlined in favour of stopping the sale include: Ethos Capital has not made a meaningful commitment to operate .org in the public interest; the new owners of the PIR registry would have new incentives and new power to raise .org fees, monetise .org registry data, and censor the Internet; the proposed sale saddles PIR with debt, and it is not clear how PIR would alleviate its financial burden.