The legacy top-level domains are not in the same category as the new top-level domains suggested and operated by private parties. The new top-level domains were sold for a high price, and charge similarly high prices to their customers. In contrast, the legacy domains were originally free, which greatly helped the growth of the Internet. Even when pricing plans were introduced to help defray the cost of supporting DNS and other domain-related services, the prices were kept low. The result is that millions of domains have been created by people who have made great contributions to the Internet. The .org domain, in particular, is populated by public-spirited non-profits, educational organizations, political activists, charities, and even families (among others). Allowing the prices for these domains to be raised arbitrarily will be greatly harmful not only to the Internet itself, but also to the wider public, who will no longer be able to locate such organizations--or even family members--because they have been priced out of their domains. I personally own a family-specific .org domain, and could not afford to keep it if price limits are removed. There is no reason to remove price limitations. Please keep .org affordable! -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain