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[Link posting] Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names

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<URL:https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/26/dot_org_price_increases/>

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> The organization that oversees the domain name system, ICANN, has 
> proposed an end to price caps on one of the internet's most popular 
> extensions – .org – and many in the internet industry are unhappy 
> about it.
> 
> "Imagine if next year you had to pay 10 times as much to renew your
> domain name as you paid this year," one seller of domains, Namecheap,
> has warned in a blog post.[1] It and other registrars have started
> emailing their customer urging them to oppose the plan – which is out
> for public comment[2] until this Monday, April 29.
> 
> Currently, many of the world's biggest internet extensions – .com,
> .net and .org, among others – are prevented from increasing their
> prices beyond a certain amount over the course of their contract with
> ICANN.
> 
> It means that you can typically get a .com or .org domain for around
> $10 a year. But a huge expansion of the domain name system that has
> seen thousands of new extensions added in the past five years – all
> of which are free to set their own prices – has led to pressure from
> the "legacy" registries to take off price controls.
> 
> In its proposed contract change, ICANN has used the addition of all
> these new top-level domains to argue for removing price caps. "This
> change will not only allow the .org renewal agreement to better
> conform with the base registry agreement, but also takes into
> consideration the maturation of the domain name market and the goal
> of treating the Registry Operator equitably with registry operators
> of new gTLDs and other legacy gTLDs utilizing the base registry
> agreement," the organization explains in its public comment
> explanation.
> 
> It is proposing the same change to two other top-level domains: .info
> and .biz, which are run to by two of the biggest internet registries,
> Afilias and Neustar respectively.
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[1] <URL:https://www.namecheap.com/blog/keep-domain-prices-in-check/>
[2] <URL:https://www.icann.org/public-comments/org-renewal-2019-03-18-en>

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[Link posting] Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-04-26 23:36 +0100
  Re: [Link posting] Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-27 00:31 +0000
  Re: [Link posting] Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-04-27 13:55 +1000

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