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<p style="margin: 0px;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">I am a .org registrant. </font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">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’.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">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.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">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.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by
removing price caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and
registrants!</font></p>
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