Hello

I am a .biz domain name registrant.

I am against the proposal to remove all price restrictions on .org, .biz and .info domain names.  This proposal will leave me and all other such registrants exposed to very large fee increases.  This is not a competitive market.  As a domain name registrant who has been paying for this domain many years, I have no choice but to pay for the fee every year if I want to maintain my domain name.  The system has been working well and there is no justification for this change. 

Legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit new gTLDs and should be treated that way. Legacy TLDs are what the internet was built on. They are essentially a public trust. They are very different than new gTLDs which were created, bought and paid for by private parties. Registrants of these legacy extensions should be entitled to price predictability & stability.

Advancements in technology should be driving the cost of operating a registry down, yet prices keep going up? Removing price caps is unfair to the millions of domain registrants. They will have no price protections. Every registrant will be at the complete mercy and whims of the registry. This could result in a transfer of funds from millions of non-profits to one non-profit, with no benefits to the domain registrants.

ICANN is supposed to represent a "bottom up, consensus-driven multistakeholder model". ICANN 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.

Best regards

Sophie