[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org, ...

[Bureau Cracy]

To Whom It May Concern,

We find it completely unconscienable that ICANN, which is an organization
entrusted with caring for the development of the internet and the
registration of urls can abandon domains like .org and .info to a price
gouging process where no control is placed on registrars.

This kind of free-market process does not work and on the contrary
encourages price gouging and price fixing.  Rather than increasing
registrations of .org, such a process will become a price barrier, and
render .org meaningless. Only pushing those who already have it to either
abandon .org and migrate elsewhere or be forced to pay what the registrars
will ask.

Most people use .org for not for profit initiatives, as well as .info. And
yet they are sought after, especially .org, because they help organizations
distinguish themselves from commercial and market based initiatives. So you
have a captured group, that wants to distinguish itself with this
registration and you will see businesses which will take advantage of this
captured user base to push prices higher. This would be a fatal error
(unless you want to harm non-profit organizations!!!) in an arena of
user-ship that is oriented toward common good activities and construction
of sensibilities other than that of the ‘marketplace’.

All the art spaces and artists with small organizations will suffer from
this decision. Please do not allow unimpeded price gouging in these domains.

Thanks You,

Felix
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