<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Please maintain price controls on .org, and preferably extend to all domain names.</div><div><br>
</div><div>The domain name system requires considerable investment by an
organization in a domain, causing it to have significant value. However
the domain name is not owned, but rented. Do not expose businesses to
unpredictable financial risks of gTLD registrars abusing monopolistic powers.
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It is critical to protect business investment and success with DNS that
domain names and stable and "boring". It is essential to maintain
confidence in the domain name system by barring rampant profiteering by
holding a domain name hostage to arbitrary price movements.
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</div><div><br></div><div>Domain names are not a "free market", they are a regulated, segmented, monopoly. Since this is a monopoly the operators should be contracted to operate the systems reliably and enabled to make a consistent, stable, fixed profit (like bonds vs. shares).<br></div><div><br></div><div>The technology is mature and predictable. The companies operating the
gTLD did not invent the technology, are not innovating in the technology
space, and any investments they make are to cover infrastructure needs
and are completely predictable. Capitalism is supposed to reward risk
with returns - gTLD operation is like the bond market, not the stock
market. Price controls are the appropriate management strategy.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Dr S<br></div></div>