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<div class="">On 16.11.2019, at 17:51, Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" class="">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">SO: Am curious, why should this worry anyone except the "eventual" new owner of PIR?</div>
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<div>Because if this is true, it is extremely likely that the business model of the new owner is not based on plain price increase, but on other factors.</div>
<div>As I have said in another thread, I believe that the easiest way to increase profitability is through vertical integration. PIR could not do that - for various reasons that will take time to explain - also being a daughter organization of ISOC, but an
investment fund could easily lump together a company like Donuts (and I am only quoting this as an example) with PIR. Why? Because if a registry is forbidden to have a preferential relationship with an accredited registrar (all accredited registrars must be
treated equally) a registrar has free hands in the way they conduct the business.</div>
<div>So, what will have impact on users is not the price change, but the business model change - in the sense that registrations in .org will no longer depend on the ethics of PIR but on the appetite of the registrar that could run the show.</div>
<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Roberto</div>
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