[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement

[Jonathan H]

I am a domain name registrant, and I respectfully request that ICANN retain
its existing pricing agreement for .org domains, and NOT implement the
ability for PIR to raise prices without restriction. Rather than try to
completely rephrase it, I offer selected passages from Zak Muscovitch's
comment of Apr. 10, 2019, which highlight the main reasons behind my
request:

"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....

"The .org registry is simply too important to be permitted to be the
subject of its operator's discretion, even if well meaning."

Sincerely,
Jonathan B. Harms
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