To whom it may concern: I am writing to express my concern about the proposed changes to the global .org registry agreement to be made after June 2019, as described on the ICANN website at https://www.icann.org/public-comments/org-renewal-2019-03-18-en Specifically, I am very concerned about the proposed change to the Pricing for Domain Name Registrations and Registry Services (Section 2.10). This proposed change would remove the existing price cap on .org registrations. I oppose this change. Removing the price cap will lead to immediate and potentially large price rises rises for critical domain infrastructure which will have an extremely negative impact for charities, community groups and non-governmental organisations. I personally manage toplevel .org domains for myself, and for a local church in New Zealand. My brother who has been working in international disaster relief and community development also manages several toplevel .org domains. I have witnessed firsthand how many community and aid groups get by on shoestring budgets, and web sites are an essential requirement for such groups. Any rise in the cost for domain registrations will have a huge damaging effect for these groups. There has been a trend in the last ten years for community groups and nonprofits to increasingly use Facebook and other large, centralised, proprietary social networks. We are now starting to see the very great danger of this trend. I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, where on March 15, 2019, a white supremacist terrorist attack was conducted against Islamic people at prayer and Facebook was used as the mechanism for distributing a live stream of this attack. As a result of this attack, and Facebook's completely inadequate safety protocols, the community sector in New Zealand is now much more aware of the dangers of relying on centralised, proprietary social media services, and much more interested in using their own website domains again. One reason why individual organisations managing their own domain name is essential, is that it is the only reliable way to solve the problem of 'fake news'. Only information published on an organisation's own website can be seen as authoritative. The Internet and the World Wide Web, and the Domain Name Service on which they rely, were born from this vision of decentralised servers where every organisation has the right to manage their own server. Despite the move to centralisation and corporate ownership over the last decade, decentralised domain ownership remains key to the open nature of the Web. But ICANN is proposing to deny nonprofit groups this right, and to make .org domains less accessible for small community groups at the very time when the world has become aware of how dangerous centralised, proprietary data services are. ICANN is in great danger of positioning itself on the wrong side of history with this move. Please do not make this change. Please do not throw the nonprofit and community sector away. Please do not make .org domains less accessible at the very time in history when we are all becoming aware of how important it is to have control of our own servers and our own domain names. Regards, Nate Cull