I don't think it makes sense for ICANN to remove the price-caps on registration of .org domains. The registry-service-providers are contractors operating the .org registry at the hire of ICANN (and for the public good). It does not make sense to allow the contractor to set any price they want. The operation of the .org domain is significantly different in nature to an entity which requests, markets, and operates a new gTLD. It does not make sense to treat the operator of the .org domain "equitably" with operators of a gTLD, as the operator of a gTLD is not being given the gift of a top-level-domain with large cultural, social, and economic value.

The operator of the .org domain operates a monopoly with a large amount of value, and ICANN should continue to intervene in the pricing of the monopoly good to arrive at an economically fair outcome.

It does not make sense to treat the service-provider of the .org domain the same as the operators of gTLDs as the operator of a gTLD has invented, marketing, and branded the gTLD. The .org domain is a fixture of the public internet, not something that requires actual investment or marketing on the part of the service-provider.

I am against this proposed change in the service agreement:

Pricing for Domain Name Registrations and Registry Services (Section 2.10 of the .org renewal agreement): In alignment with the base registry agreement, the price cap provisions in the current .org agreement, which limited the price of registrations and allowable price increases for registrations, are removed from the .org renewal agreement. Protections for existing registrants will remain in place, in line with the base registry agreement. This change will not only allow the .org renewal agreement to better conform with the base registry agreement, but also takes into consideration the maturation of the domain name market and the goal of treating the Registry Operator equitably with registry operators of new gTLDs and other legacy gTLDs utilizing the base registry agreement

Thanks,

Antoine