Who owns and operates monero.org?
Has there been any attempt by the Monero core team to gain control of that domain name? Has there been any evidence of malicious behavior from its owner or operator so far? Was getmonero.org chosen as the official domain only because monero.org was already registered?
Yes, the core team chose getmonero.org as the best available domain at the time because the owner of monero.org never self identified or otherwise communicated with the core team. According to well known Monero community member Gingeropolous:
monero.org is owned and operated by an unknown party. They are apparently not part of the community because they haven't spoken up. Monero.org has been benign up to this point, but I wouldn't download anything from that site. My level of distrust stems from the fact that the cryptonote environment is relatively hostile (IMO, no one else could have performed the 201623 attack and, in general, the overall scam is hostile to the entire crypto community)
Based on the above should be no surprise that the domain registration is anonymous
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Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-08-25T05:35:08Z <<<
