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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I am a .org registrant of several of my clients (churches and Youth organizations).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>ICANN staff should not unilaterally impose URS in legacy TLDs when that <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>issue is precisely what is being examined by the volunteer ICANN Working <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Group who has been mandated to review this issue. ICANN policy making is <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>supposed to be a ‘bottom up, multi-stakeholder model’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I believe that legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>new gTLDs. Legacy TLDs are essentially a public trust, unlike new gTLDs <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>which were created, bought and paid for by private interests. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Registrants of legacy TLDs are entitled to price stability and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>predictability, and should not be subject to price increases with no <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>maximums. Unlike new gTLDs, registrants of legacy TLDs registered their <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>names and made their online presence on legacy TLDs on the basis that <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>price caps would continue to exist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Unrestrained price increases on the millions of .org registrants who are <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>not-for-profits or non-profits would be unfair to them. Unchecked price <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>increases have the potential to result in hundreds of millions of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>dollars being transferred from these organizations to one non-profit, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>the Internet Society, with .org registrants receiving no benefit in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>return. ICANN should not allow one non-profit nearly unlimited access to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>the funds of other non-profits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing price <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Also fire the ICANN people who advocated for this... they do not <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>represent registrants!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gene McKinney <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AEAAAA'>Gene McKinney</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AEAAAA'> | Innovative Web Design LLC | Web Master | 6 Wilton Avenue | Middlesex, NJ 08846</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AEAAAA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AEAAAA'>Cell: 908-208-1648 | FAX: 732-659-7661 | Email: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AEAAAA'><a href="mailto:gene@innovativewebdesign.net"><b><span style='color:#AEAAAA'>gene@innovativewebdesign.net</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>