[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not remove price caps on “legacy” TLDs
Bill Lam
bill at trax2.com
Fri Apr 26 23:17:46 UTC 2019
I am writing to oppose the removal of price caps on any of the “legacy”
TLDs, as doing so will only create a free-for-all on limitless price
increases.
Already the new GTLDs are accepted as alternative options with price
expectations that vary greatly based on the registry; however, current
registrants of older well established extensions are expected to
maintain some level of stability.
These legacy domain names, some of which have been registered for many
years, are unlike the new mess being created and owners of these legacy
names have a reasonable expectation of affordability and stability.
The old manta goes ‘if it is not broken, you do not try and fix it.’ The
vast majority of domain owners will remain unaffected so long as the
fluctuating and exorbitant prices remain in the newer name space; there
will be plenty of years ahead for ICANN to benefit from those while
allowing stability within the legacy name space.
Please leave well enough alone and move forward without effecting
millions and millions of current and well established registrants who
expect their domain expenses to remain reasonable, affordable and stable.
Further more, 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 is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants
from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable
and interoperable."
ICANN is supposed to operate for the "public benefit".
Thereby, I do not believe this policy would not have any "public
benefit" at all!
Thank You
Bill Lam
http://trax2maps.com
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