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am a .org registrant. <BR><BR>ICANN staff 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. ICANN policy
making is supposed to be a ‘bottom up, multi-stakeholder model’.<BR><BR>I
believe that legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit new gTLDs.
Legacy TLDs are essentially a public trust, unlike new gTLDs which were created,
bought and paid for by private interests. Registrants of legacy TLDs are
entitled to price stability and predictability, and should not be subject to
price increases with no maximums. Unlike new gTLDs, registrants of legacy TLDs
registered their names and made their online presence on legacy TLDs on the
basis that price caps would continue to exist.<BR><BR>Unrestrained price
increases on the millions of .org registrants who are not-for-profits or
non-profits would be unfair to them. Unchecked price increases have the
potential to result in hundreds of millions of dollars being transferred from
these organizations to one non-profit, the Internet Society, with .org
registrants receiving no benefit in return. ICANN should not allow one
non-profit nearly unlimited access to the funds of other
non-profits.<BR><BR>ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by
removing price caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and
registrants!</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>