I am a .org registrant of several of my clients (churches and Youth organizations).

ICANN staff should not unilaterally impose URS in legacy TLDs when that

issue is precisely what is being examined by the volunteer ICANN Working

Group who has been mandated to review this issue. ICANN policy making is

supposed to be a ‘bottom up, multi-stakeholder model’.

I believe that legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit

new gTLDs. Legacy TLDs are essentially a public trust, unlike new gTLDs

which were created, bought and paid for by private interests.

Registrants of legacy TLDs are entitled to price stability and

predictability, and should not be subject to price increases with no

maximums. Unlike new gTLDs, registrants of legacy TLDs registered their

names and made their online presence on legacy TLDs on the basis that

price caps would continue to exist.

Unrestrained price increases on the millions of .org registrants who are

not-for-profits or non-profits would be unfair to them. Unchecked price

increases have the potential to result in hundreds of millions of

dollars being transferred from these organizations to one non-profit,

the Internet Society, with .org registrants receiving no benefit in

return. ICANN should not allow one non-profit nearly unlimited access to

the funds of other non-profits.

ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing price

caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants!

Also fire the ICANN people who advocated for this... they do not

represent registrants!

Gene McKinney

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