As a holder of .org domains I am concerned about potential price increases to those domains if the price that the wholesaler can charge is not capped. A cap of 10% per year (As in previous years) is perfectly valid and protects consumers from arbitrary price increases. Top level domain spaces are a monopoly, given that your business or organisation can generally fit into certain top level domains but not others, there is limited choice, and in many cases only a single choice is right for an organisation. For example if I were operating a TV station (or IPTV) type of business, then the .tv domain would be an obvious fit, whereas a TLD like .shop, would not fit the business. Similarly a non-profit organisation might find that the only TLD that fits for them is the .org TLD. If the .org wholesaler decided to arbitrarily increase the price the consumer would have little choice but to pay, or to use a domain that doesnt make any sense in the context of the organisation, or to have no internet presence at all. While it can be argued that market forces will dictate a nominal price, it has been demonstrated historically that we cannot trust companies in control of a monopoly, to do the right thing, or even to follow the market. For the reasons stated above, I am against any TLD contract which does not include a fair and reasonable, per-anum based price cap. -- _--_|\ --------- Todd Wright - geekasylum@gmail.com -------- / \ Deedle deedle dee, Wubba wubba wubba \_.---._* <--- . v Mobile: +61-481-527-051 Ph: +61-2-9687-9006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------