[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price cap removal an abdication of responsibility
Removing the price cap on legacy gTLDs is an act of regulatory capture, plain and simple. These are non-competitive, monopoly contracts providing internet services with diminishing costs at scale and for years ICANN has allowed them to raise their prices on consumers. The fixed increases were bad enough, but uncapping it and saying the market will decide is dangerous and irresponsible. Perhaps PIR could increase the price of icann.org to match every dollar in the ICANN budget, that would be acceptable and surely ICANN could simply move to another TLD without issue. It would be a massive problem, everyone can understand that. So why is anyone even considering removing the price cap provisions? Do your job properly and keep price cap provisions in the contract. Kevin Ohashi
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Kevin Ohashi