I am writing today to express my strong objection to the proposed PIR contract renewal as it currently stands. In principle, I have no problem with lifting price caps on domain registry. In this specific case, however, the Public Interest Registry organization holds a monopoly on .org registrations. If the pricing restraints on this company were lifted, history strongly suggests that their registration fees would increase substantially, possibly to an extreme degree. Those of us holding .org domains might well be forced to choose between paying prohibitive fees, or giving up years of accumulated name recognition and goodwill in moving to another TLD. I am not as alarmed as I would be, were PIR a for-profit company. My quick read of the proposal, however, found nothing to prevent PIR from reorganizing as for-profit, and they would have considerable incentive to do so. Regardless, history has proven that unregulated monopolies of any sort invariably end up serving their own interests rather than those of the public. As a hobbyist with several .org domains and who manages a .org website for a not-for-profit organization, I am concerned that the proposed contract will trigger what I assume are unintended side effects that would make it difficult or impossible for us to continue to hold these domains. I believe the best way forward is to continue to place a ceiling on registration fees. Failing this, I offer a modification to the proposal: Remove price caps on .org if you must, but at the same time open the TLD to allow multiple organizations to share its management and charge fees for registrations. Competition would then keep fees down to a reasonable level. A model for this modality could be found in the way USA power companies sell electric power individually to consumers, with the electricity from each delivered over a common power line grid. Thank you for your attention and consideration.