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--></style></head><body lang="NO-BOK" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regarding the renewal of the .org registry agreement, there has been proposed a new pricing model.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The new pricing model removes the upper pricing limit, which can lead to PIR (Public Internet Registry)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">drastically increasing the prices without any consequences from ICANN.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Legacy TLDs like .org should not have the same freedom (regarding to pricing) as the new gTLDs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The reason being that the legacy TLDs is very imprinted into peoples daily lives and serves a different purpose.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">One can say that they are “official” in a way.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If there is an increase in operational cost which absolutely requires a pricing increase on .org domains, then</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">that should be discussed and an absolute percentage (maximum) should be reported to the public beforehand</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and that percentage should take place in the new registry agreement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If this new registry agreement takes effect without any pricing cap, legacy domains, SMBs and large .org holders</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">all would be affected by this. What separates new gTLDs from legacy gTLDs is that many businesses rely more</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">on the legacy gTLDs for production systems rather than gTLDs because of their stability. Both operational and in pricing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Legacy gTLDs have way more registrants to account for their operational cost than new gTLDs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Removing the price cap for legacy gTLDs is nothing more than imposing a cash grab for their respective registries</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">as those legacy gTLDs already have many (many more) registrants than the new ones.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mustafa Gezen</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bycrates AS, NO <span style="color:#333333;background:white">920 348 017</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.bycrates.com">www.bycrates.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>