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To whom it may concern:<br>
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I am a domain name registrant and a .org registrant.. <br>
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Legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit new gTLDs
and should be treated that way. Legacy TLDs are what the internet
was built on. They are essentially a public trust. They are very
different than new gTLDs which were created, bought and paid for by
private parties. Registrants of these legacy extensions should be
entitled to price predictability & stability.<br>
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Advancements in technology should be driving the cost of operating a
registry down, yet prices keep going up? Removing price caps is
unfair to the millions of domain registrants. They will have no
price protections. Every registrant will be at the complete mercy
and whims of the registry. This could result in a transfer of funds
from millions of non-profits to one non-profit, with no benefits to
the domain registrants.<br>
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ICANN is supposed to represent a "bottom up, consensus-driven
multistakeholder model". ICANN 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.<br>
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ICANN should be looking out for the .org registrants, in particular
the non-profits. There is no "public benefit" justification to these
changes. It is just a handout to business at the expense of
registrants’ rights and protections. Where are the protections for
the millions of domain registrants that this could effect in a
negative way? These changes would give way too much power to the
registry. This is not acceptable for a "public benefit" organization
that exists to represent many stakeholders.<br>
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