From the ICANN summary: "*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" Legacy TLDs .com, .net, and .org are truly public resources and, as such, should be treated distinctly from later added TLDs. Registries for these TLDs are providing a service on a limited resource and as such should be considered monopolies for providing that service, as legacy TLD domains registered with those TLDs cannot be easily or inexpensively replaced with a new registration in another TLD. There is NO COMPETITION, and thus costs in legacy TLDs really should be controlled tightly in the public interest. Thus I object strongly to removal of price cap provisions for the renewal of the .org agreement. What would be far better would be for ICANN to propose some sort of competition for registries to service the .org (and this would work well for .com and .net as well) TLD, perhaps hold a sort of reverse auction, where qualified registries would compete to win short-term operation of the .org TLD registry. This would provide TRUE COMPETITION and keep costs down. In all likelihood, costs would decrease significantly from where they are today. If all legacy TLDs were handled this way, perhaps costs would come down closer to the costs the .de country-based TLD registry charges today. DO NOT REMOVE PRICE CAPS. PLEASE ADD TRUE COMPETITION VIA REVERSE AUCTION FOR THE .org TLD CONTRACT. Thank you! Aaron Gifford St. George, Utah