I volunteer for a local arts group that provides classes and training on learning to create art, tools, and other things out of metal and stone. They have no budget and put it all back into programming. The cost to maintain a very basic website for them is cheap and I pay out of my own pocket for them because I believe in what they do. A few years ago the previous person managing the site lost the rights to our domain and I had to negotiate with some scab of a human that just squats on domains for money. I again paid out of pocket to get this domain back from them. This is only to say that the world is full of people looking to just take advantage of everyone so we need to make sure organizations that actually do good can do so without paying so many extra fees to remain active and discoverable on the web. By removing the price caps on .org domains it creates a world where I have to start assessing the value of paying for that out of pocket. When that price goes up, it gets harder and harder for them to maintain the SEO and value built around that domain if it costs significant amounts to renew each year.

Please do not remove the caps on .org domains. Many nonprofit orgs will suffer because of this reckless choice.

Thank you,
John Ritterbush