My opinion is that the proposed renewal of .org registry agreement is a bad idea. I  believe that when there is no guarantees as to whether the domain name will be affordable in the future, organizations and individuals will be reluctant to buy domain names and have an online presence. I'm a student and I own a .org domain name and use it for my personal website and my e-mail. Having an e-mail under my own domain name gives me the power to choose any e-mail servers I find suitable without changing my e-mail address. As a student with very little income, the domain name is only affordable to me at current prices and if I have no guarantee that the pricing won't skyrocket in a year or two, I would have to reconsider if I need a domain or not given the risk of giving it up due to high prices and someone else taking it over. It is my request to reject this proposal because I strongly believe that organizations will choose to not have an online presence than having their online identity taken up by someone else because they don't have the resources to continue using it. For existing organizations using a .org domain, giving it up means that giving up their whole online identity. So they will have no other choice than to pay higher fees to continue operating. Please maintain the price cap on annual increases due to these reasons. Hari Govind India Sent via Migadu.com, world's easiest email hosting