[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Protect the Internet

[Nick]

A previous post sums up a good portion of how I feel:

"Although "alignment" may be convenient from an administrative 
perspective, there is no factual or legitimate policy basis for treating 
the .org registry the same as all others, when it is clearly different 
and clearly unique, with millions of non-profits and similar 
organizations who are already established and ones which are yet to be 
established in the future, all relying upon a distinct domain name space 
that is geared towards their specific needs.

So, other than conveniently "aligning" registry agreements to 
purportedly treat all registries alike despite their respective and 
dramatically different mandates, registrant base, and histories, what 
justification is there for unlimited price increases? There is no 
evidence whatsoever that the .org registry requires unlimited additional 
funds to maintain reliable operations. There is no evidence that the 
.org registry requires unlimited additional funds to finance the goods 
works of the Internet Society. There is no evidence that the .org 
registry needs unlimited funds in order to "compete" with other 
for-profit registries, particularly when the current operator, PIR, is a 
not-for-profit organization. In short, there is simply no justification 
for permitting the .org registry operator to raise prices at all, let 
alone with a sky-is-the-limit approach."

Trust has been placed in the organizations in charge of our TLDs.  
Please do not betray our trust.

Nicholas Quartz