<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">ICANN’s current contract with Public Interest Registry (PIR) allows PIR to increase the wholesale price of .org domains by 10% a year. Now ICANN is proposing extending the contract to operate .org but letting PIR set whatever prices it wants.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This could lead to PIR charging registrars like Namecheap 100 times as much. In turn, registrars would have no choice but to pass these charges on to customers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For small businesses like ours, that would be an incredible price hike that would eat away at our bottom line.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please reconsider this proposal, as it could hurt small businesses and non-profits around the world.</div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Duff McDuffee</div><div class="">Office Manager</div><div class="">Real People Press</div><div class="">303-442-2902</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Free NLP Articles:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.realpeoplepress.com/blog" class="">http://www.realpeoplepress.com/blog</a></div><div class="">Innovative NLP Trainings: <a href="http://www.andreasnlptrainings.com/" class="">http://www.andreasnlptrainings.com/</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div>
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