Hello! Regarding the renewal of the .org registry agreement, there has been proposed a new pricing model. The new pricing model removes the upper pricing limit, which can lead to PIR (Public Internet Registry) drastically increasing the prices without any consequences from ICANN. Legacy TLDs like .org should not have the same freedom (regarding to pricing) as the new gTLDs. The reason being that the legacy TLDs is very imprinted into peoples daily lives and serves a different purpose. One can say that they are “official” in a way. If there is an increase in operational cost which absolutely requires a pricing increase on .org domains, then that should be discussed and an absolute percentage (maximum) should be reported to the public beforehand and that percentage should take place in the new registry agreement. If this new registry agreement takes effect without any pricing cap, legacy domains, SMBs and large .org holders all would be affected by this. What separates new gTLDs from legacy gTLDs is that many businesses rely more on the legacy gTLDs for production systems rather than gTLDs because of their stability. Both operational and in pricing. Legacy gTLDs have way more registrants to account for their operational cost than new gTLDs Removing the price cap for legacy gTLDs is nothing more than imposing a cash grab for their respective registries as those legacy gTLDs already have many (many more) registrants than the new ones. *Mustafa Gezen* Bycrates AS, NO 920 348 017 www.bycrates.com