[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .info & .biz Registry Agreements

[Saron Harford]

Hello,
I am very concerned about the removal of price caps currently being discussed for .info and .biz domains. It will directly affect my business and hundreds of thousands of small business owners just like me.
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. 
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.
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. 
I hope you will take my concerns seriously.

Kind regards,
 
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| Saron Harford |
| Designer & Developer |
| Tiger-Fruit Web & Graphic Design |
| m: | +353 868 272 999 |
| w: | www.tiger-fruit.com  e: saron at tiger-fruit.com
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Thank you for supporting Irish business
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