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<font size="+1"><font face="Calibri">I am a .org registrant. We are
a registered, legally defined non-profit organisation. As such,
we do voluntary community services at no cost to the community,
& no profit to ourselves. We therefore run on a very tight
budget. Removing price caps for .org domains will destroy many
non-profit organisations.<br>
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Legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit new
gTLDs and should be treated that way. Legacy TLDs are what the
internet was built on. They are essentially a public trust. They
are very different than new gTLDs which were created, bought and
paid for by private parties. Registrants of these legacy
extensions should be entitled to price predictability &
stability.<br>
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Advancements in technology should be driving the cost of
operating a registry down, yet prices keep going up? Removing
price caps is unfair to the millions of domain registrants. They
will have no price protections. Every registrant will be at the
complete mercy and whims of the registry. This could result in a
transfer of funds from millions of non-profits to one
non-profit, with no benefits to the domain registrants.<br>
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ICANN is supposed to represent a "bottom up, consensus-driven
multistakeholder model". ICANN should not unilaterally impose
URS in legacy TLDs when that issue is precisely what is being
examined by the volunteer ICANN Working Group who has been
mandated to review this issue.<br>
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ICANN should be looking out for the .org registrants, in
particular the non-profits. There is no "public benefit"
justification to these changes. It is just a handout to business
at the expense of registrants’ rights and protections. Where are
the protections for the millions of domain registrants that this
could effect in a negative way? These changes would give way too
much power to the registry. This is not acceptable for a "public
benefit" organization that exists to represent many
stakeholders.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Kathryn Keen<br>
President of Australian Wildlife Carer's Network Incorporated<br>
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