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<p>Reading about this has made me mad. Its another veiled attack on freedom of expression by this administration. This will silence voices without deep pockets and allow bad actors to take over existing, established and legitimate outlets.</p>
<p>Organized campaigns to steal organizations of their .ORG domain names will ensue either because of the tremendous commercial value or for political reasons.</p>
<p>Stop this insanity now</p>
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<p>Telling the .org registry that it can charge any price it wants for renewing a domain name is a terrible idea. Why would you allow them to set a crazy high price? They could try to force the domain owners to pay a very high price each year to renew their domain name, and if the domain owner either won't or can't, then the .org registry could take away their domain name, set a high registration price on it, and then try to find someone else who is willing to pay a high price for it. This is very unfair to long time .org domain owners who may see their prices raised sky high for no reason.</p>
<p>You let the new domain extensions charge any price they want, but that hasn't gone so well. Lots of people got burned when the new registries offered low rates for the first year, and then after people registered the domain names and some built web sites on them, some of the prices were raised through the roof. .Org has been working just fine for decades where the prices maybe go up a little bit each year. Allowing huge price increases from one year to the next could ruin .org for everybody.</p>
<p>I think you should pay a little more attention to what is good for the owners of .org domain names. The registries are doing fine. They don't need your help as they are already making plenty of money.</p>
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