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<p>I am a .org registrant. <br>
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<p>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???.</p>
<p><b>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. </b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>Registries know very well that many registrants have invested an
enormous amount of time and funds to build their web presence.
They cannot just switch to a different registry or gTLD and would
completely be at the mercy of the registry. <br>
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<p>At the very least, existing registrants need to be grandfathered
and price caps need to be kept in place for them.<br>
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<p>ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing
price caps. <br>
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<p>ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants!</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Helmut Sachs<br>
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