[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposing elimination of price inflation control

Organizations, even small and impecunious ones, are a credit to the internet and a benefit to society. Yet they owe their continued independent existence increasingly to their website domain name. Their own domain name is their only assurance of editorial and fund-raising freedom and control over the monetization or privacy of their visitors. These domains should be as close to free-of-charge as can be. The old .org price inflation regulation was not perfect but removing it altogether could subject socially-useful, harmless, and unprofitable websites, and by extension their noble but shallow-pocketed operators, to rents beyond their means, to the detriment of the internet as a whole.