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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>To whom it may concern,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am president of LGDOR Inc. a non-profit entity in the Leominster, MA area. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This comment pertains to the section called “Pricing for Domain Name Registrations and Registry Services (Section 2.10 of the .org renewal agreement).” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many nonprofits like ourselves work to create and produce more software programmers (we run a free coding academy in Leominster) and many nonprofits like ourselves work to provide free incubation services for new software/web-based companies. Many companies like us also provide free tools to improve our community and society. We operate in a voluntary manner and operate with extremely limited budgets (a single grant) to cover administration and overhead costs. Much of our recurring costs are associated with hosting platforms. An increase to this cost will use up our funding quicker and cut the length of time we can continue our service. Therefore, we disagree with removing the cap on domain name registrations and registry services for the .org domain. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since the .org domain should only be associated with nonprofits, it should be a refuge from companies seeking profit and market exploitation. This includes the registry itself. The retention of a cap is appropriate and probably necessary. Non-profit companies have to deal with fewer and fewer low cost options to carry out operations as more and more vendors look to exploit non-profits as new market areas and more profit. As such, non-profit services can’t afford to operate and many will simply go away. It’s simply getting too expensive to operate. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Finally, the registries should consider companies like ours as assets and provide even lower cost services. Why? Because many of us work to make new programmers, new companies, and new support tools. The internet is the main tool for the benefactors of our services. It is not logical to increase the costs of such services. We work to grow the size of your market. Our folks, services, and tools might start out operating in the .org domain, but they move to .com.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Trent Larson, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>President<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>LGDOR, Inc. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>