April 25, 2019
1:28 p.m.
ICANN has a public responsibility to stand up for the best interests of the internet community. The request to remove price caps on .org domain registration does not provide any benefit to registrants. As a legacy top level domain used by millions of small non-profit organizations operating on thin budgets, .org is fundamentally different than the newer 'for-profit' domains. While I can appreciate that ICANN needs to work with both registries and registrants, approval of the request to remove price caps entirely caters to the registries and will only harm millions of smaller non-profit organizations. ICANN needs to stand up for the public interest and registrants and reject the elimination of price caps for .org domains. David Stewart