Although it was not part of the original "big seven" top-level domains, .biz has long served as a sensible alternative to .com. Thousands of small businesses have taken advantage of that top-level domain to establish their Web sites; many of them have done so to work around domain squatters who captured, but do not operate, closely related .com domains. Removing price limitations on .biz would put those small businesses in an untenable position. Equivalent .com domains are often unavailable, and the existing sites already have established a presence under the businesses' customers. A significantly higher price would certainly be a major burden, and would probably drive a few small businesses into bankruptcy. Nor is it the case that significant price increases are necessary. DNS operates effectively on the funding that it has, and the addition of new high-priced top-level domains such as .money has resulted in a significant additional infusion of cash. There is no reason to remove price limitations. Please keep .biz affordable! -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ "There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic." -- Bill Gates, March 10, 2011