<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline;float:none">To Whom It May Concern,</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">We find it completely unconscienable that ICANN, which is an organization entrusted with caring for the development of the internet and the registration of urls can abandon domains like .org and .info to a price gouging process where no control is placed on registrars. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">This kind of free-market process does not work and on the contrary encourages price gouging and price fixing.  Rather than increasing registrations of .org, such a process will become a price barrier, and render .org meaningless. Only pushing those who already have it to either abandon .org and migrate elsewhere or be forced to pay what the registrars will ask. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Most people use .org for not for profit initiatives, as well as .info. And yet they are sought after, especially .org, because they help organizations distinguish themselves from commercial and market based initiatives. So you have a captured group, that wants to distinguish itself with this registration and you will see businesses which will take advantage of this captured user base to push prices higher. This would be a fatal error (unless you want to harm non-profit organizations!!!) in an arena of user-ship that is oriented toward common good activities and construction of sensibilities other than that of the ‘marketplace’. <div><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">All the art spaces and artists with small organizations will suffer from this decision. Please do not allow unimpeded price gouging in these domains.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Thanks You,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Felix<br></div></div>