[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Org domains
Dear ICANN, It has come to our attention that you are proposing to remove the price cap on .org, .biz and .info domains. As the owner of several .org domain names, I believe this is a bad idea, for a number of reasons. - By removing the cap, you are essentially opening the door to arbitrary price increases. This affects our ability to plan and invest in domain names as the way for our customers and our community to find us, since we have zero reliability on being able to afford them the next year. - In principle, in a free market with abundance of parties, we should see an improvement in technology that would drive the prices down. However, when there are only a limited number of players that actually set those prices (as most "domain registrars" are actually just resellers and do not decide on the prices), this only stagnates the prices. It happens in broadband services, it has been happening in domain names. The prices have been steady for years, and not gone down. - Domain names are a tool that help customers reach us. However, almost since domain names began to be registered, they have become a product on their own. We have domains that are extremely relevant to our business, being locked by a third party that is not using them. If the price cap is removed, domain names will become more of an object of trade, which will block them for longer. Please, reconsider your position, and keep the price cap. Instead of making this change, please consider addressing the issues outlined above. Thanks and best wishes, Ivan Perez -- Founder @ Keera Studios
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Ivan Perez