The new agreement with the PIR allows for an ICANN-sponsored monopoly on pricing. Given that the entire FUNCTION of the .org addresses was originally to create an option for non-profits and lower-income organisations, giving the price keys of the kingdom to a single entity monopoly without any oversight violates the spirit upon which this TLD came about. It also is a big poke in the eye to organisations all over the world who use this TLD as their primary identity for disseminating information and allowing others to reach out and connect. Many if not most of those organisations run on shoe-string budgets and do not fall into the same category that .com and .net operations fall into. Allowing a monopoly to price-gouge fundamentally destroys these groups' ability to prosper and continue their work. -- Neil Fusillo CEO Infinideas, Inc. http://www.ideasip.com