[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Motivation for increasing prices

[Sylvia Else]

 One might wonder what a non-profit corporation expects to gain from being
permitted to increase its fees. The answer, of course, is that the
increased income can be distributed to the company's officers as salary.

So a non-profit entity has as much motivation to engage in monopolistic
behaviour as any other, and will do so if given the chance.

The org TLD is perhaps viewed as a testing ground for this, since holders
of its subdomains are unlikely to have as much clout as would holder of
.com domains, for example.

ICANN might care to take into account that its entire control of the
Internet domain name system is based on the root server addresses built
into operating systems, and those can be changed if the domain name system
turns into a method of extracting rent from the existing domain name
holders. All it would take would be agreement between Microsoft, Apple,
Google (for Android) and a few Linux distributions, and ICANN would be out
of a job.

The net, org, and com registrars knew what they were getting into. If they
don't want to operate within the existing pricing constraints, then they
should pass the job onto someone who does. Wanting to change the rules now
is like moving into a suburb next to an airport, and then complaining about
the noise.

Sylvia Else
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