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Dear ICANN,<br>
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I am a .org registrant. <br>
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ICANN staff should not unilaterally impose URS in legacy TLDs when
that issue is precisely what is being examined by the volunteer
ICANN Working Group who has been mandated to review this issue.
ICANN policy making is supposed to be a ???bottom up,
multi-stakeholder model???.<br>
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I believe that legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from
for-profit new gTLDs. Legacy TLDs are essentially a public trust,
unlike new gTLDs which were created, bought and paid for by private
interests. Registrants of legacy TLDs are entitled to price
stability and predictability, and should not be subject to price
increases with no maximums. Unlike new gTLDs, registrants of legacy
TLDs registered their names and made their online presence on legacy
TLDs on the basis that price caps would continue to exist.<br>
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Unrestrained price increases on the millions of .org registrants who
are not-for-profits or non-profits would be unfair to them.
Unchecked price increases have the potential to result in hundreds
of millions of dollars being transferred from these organizations to
one non-profit, the Internet Society, with .org registrants
receiving no benefit in return. ICANN should not allow one
non-profit nearly unlimited access to the funds of other
non-profits.<br>
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ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing
price caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and
registrants!
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