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Domain
Registrants Urged to Weigh In On Unlimited .ORG
Price Hikes Before Monday Deadline
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Domain
registrants are up in
arms about an ICANN
proposal to remove
all price caps on popular .ORG
domain names. Price increases have
been limited to no more than 10%
annually under .ORG's current
contract with ICANN (already a far
higher increase than the rate of
inflation), but if this proposal is
enacted,
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the Public
Interest Registry could
increase prices to any number they
want for .ORG registrations and
renewals. If that happens you can
bet demands for unlimited .com
and .net increases won't be
far behind.
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The
Internet
Commerce Association
has already filed a detailed
objection
to the .ORG contract
proposal with ICANN (the
oversight body that governs
the domain name system). To
gauge community sentiment on
this issue, ICANN opened a public
comment period allowing
all interest parties to
weigh in on the proposal
themselves. This is
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domain name
registrants should do and the
ICA has made it easy for you
by creating this comment
submission form.
The key point to be aware of
now is that time is of
the essence as the
comment period ends
at 23:59 UTC on Monday,
April 29. That is
7:59PM U.S. Eastern Time
(4:59PM Pacific). You
can also access the comment
form from the ICA's
Facebook page,
their Twitter
feed and their LinkedIn
page. |
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