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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I am a domain name registrant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:NL">With kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:NL">Leon Colijn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:NL">Manager Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:NL">Exipa Engineering & Maintenance BV<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Tel. : +31 512 741 994<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Mob : +31 6 31 245 296<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:NL"><a href="mailto:leon.colijn@exipa.nl"><span style="color:#0563C1">leon.colijn@exipa.nl</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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