Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. I am a .org registrant. I am not a company, only a family. I hold the .org registration because many important contacts I must maintain (banking, etc) do not recognize the newer extension I own and would preferably use, so I added this domain which has been universally recognized for a long, long time (Internet-wise, that is). I really do not see allowing unbridled control of prices by PIR as being fair for the many, many others like myself who use the legacy .org extension for meaningful purposes outside of making money (which is why uncontrolled prices just are not right for this). ICANN should be doing more to protect owners of .org domain names. Why is ICANN trying to remove price protections for .org domain owners who like myself are non-profits and the like, allowing PIR to overcharge us for our domain names? Removing price caps is not fair to .org domain owners. If price caps are removed, the cost to renew their domain names may become too expensive, and they could be forced to give up websites that they have used for years that are important to them. There is a difference between a legacy extension (created with the support of the US government even before the existence of ICANN) which has millions of existing users and the brand new extensions that started off with a new set of rules, in particular no price controls, and no existing registrants. They have completely different characteristics, history, and ownership structure. Please do not ignore these differences and propose that they be treated the same. Kenward Vaughan -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca