The big reason for using the legacy TLDs was (and still is) the predictability in future costs of domain registration and renewal. As a registrant in .INFO, I object to any change in the agreements with the registry operator that would allow them to increase prices arbitrarily. I have spent many years building up my website and its associated name and will essentially be held hostage if the .INFO operator increases prices arbitrarily. The amount of revenue to be extracted from .INFO is probably maximized by increasing prices significantly -- even though there would be *no* new registrations. It is a lot easier to multiply prices by a factor of 10, rather than increase the number of domains registered by (more than) a factor of 10. It also isn't obvious to me that this wouldn't allow prices to be increased based on the (say) Alexa rank of the domain name. Maybe just set the price for a top 100 Alex website to $1MM/yr and the operator wouldn't lose many of those customers. Also, it isn't clear *why* ICANN is proposing this change -- it feels like a giveaway to the existing operators who did *nothing* to create the value of the TLD, but just operated the TLD on behalf of ICANN (and the legacy TLDs predate ICANN itself). This is different from the new gTLDs where the applicant is creating the value for themselves. How much *value* does ICANN think is being transferred to the INFO operator though this change, and how much did the .INFO operator have to give to ICANN (or its staff) to get this reward? Philip Gladstone