Vice President, David Maher, became the chairman. The following month, Ed Viltz became the organization's first CEO.

Marc Rotenberg, the founding Board Chair of the Public Interest Registry, stated in an op-ed that when the Public Interest Registry was established, "our aim was to promote the non-commercial use of the internet ... We believed there should be a space of the Internet to promote non-commercial use and that the governance of the .ORG domain should respect the essential character of