I am on the board of directors of two nonprofits which have websites with the .org TLD, as well as a member of another. Nonprofits work hard to advance their mission and serve others on an extremely limited budget. Today, helping advance the cause means having a website. Costs for website hosting and maintenance can be managed, but we depend on a static URL for our audience, and shopping for cheaper domain names is not an option. The only reason to remove a cap is to allow prices to increase beyond what they otherwise would, so we can assume that this will happen.

Therefore the potential for unlimited increases to the registration costs for an established domain is unacceptable risk to organizations properly employing this TLD.

Such a change would fly in the face of the original intent of the price cap. I can't escape the feeling that this would amount to highway robbery. An organization "purchases" and uses a domain for years, and includes registration in their operating budget, only to have it rise uncontrolled with no acceptable recourse. In some cases this could devastate smaller nonprofits, by forcing them off the internet.

Who does benefit? Another non-profit.

Do not remove the current price increase cap.

Eric W. Browning