Hello, As current board member of Wrocław Hackerspace, I have to express a deep concern on the proposed change. hswro.org was the "home" of our organization since the very beginning, on which all our infrastructure and reputation relies. By giving up the price constraints on .org domains, renewal prices may rise sharply, as .org registry (PIR) is de facto a monopoly, and can dictate the prices. As NGOs typically have limited budget (like our local hackerspace), they may effectively be forced to change the domain, which contrary to your idea, isn't painless process, as domain name is a very important part of the organization's reputation. Rebranding is a very painful process. You suggested that Red Cross might migrate from "redcross.org" to "redcross.info". The effort invested into current domain is enormous, and migrating into another TLD would mean a huge campain to make people know the new location. This includes rebuilding reputation in search engines from scratch. Many non-profit organizations hosted in .org simply do not have money to do that, and sharp price increase is likely to hit their budgets, given that trustee maintaining the prices has given up, totally failing its function. This is a very real concern, since each gTLD registry is effectively a monopoly, and can dictate the prices. You cannot register a domain in one TLD by means of other registry, you have to adhere to their rules, or register your domain in another TLD. Even the organizations who have maxed out their domains validity in time will be hit by this change in the future, as they will eventually have to renew the domain. Being an non-profit organization yourself, I hope you can put yourselves in the shoes of smaller organizations, and maintain the trustee function of legacy TLDs. With kind regards, Lech