ICANN Email Archives: [info-tld-agreement]

[bill Kernodle <revelationimports@xxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Opposed to Variable Pricing

To the ICANN Board,

I am writing to object to the proposed new registry
agreement for the ORG, .BIZ and .INFO registries. The
inclusion of open-ended tiered pricing in the "Lifting
of Price Controls on Registry Services" section of the
proposed agreement will be extremely harmful to the
Internet and will severely limit and stifle its
growth.

The above proposal has the very real potential to make
having an Internet
presence unaffordable for the vast majority and
reserving it for those with
deep pockets. To offer the registry a blank checkbook
would be giving them
carte blanche to charge amounts that can make or break
potentially hundreds of thousands of people's Internet
ambitions is, in my opinion, misguided at best
and almost criminal at worst. As a website owner
myself, this proposed change would directly affect my
businesses and web freedom.

The Internet is supposed to be for all people, not
just a select group. There
should be a uniform price for all Internet domains in
the ORG, .BIZ
and .INFO registry spaces that reflects the cost of
offering the registry service. Having a double
standard that allows charging whatever the registry
chooses for specific .ORG, .BIZ and .INFO domains at
their whim is unscrupulous and unfair.

The proposed "Lifting of Price Controls on Registry
Services" registry
agreement gives the registry economic power over the
Internet that is well
beyond its legitimate rights. These rights should be
limited to ICANN or better
still, to the Department of Commerce that oversees
ICANN.

ICANN, stop this potential abuse before it happens and
keep the Internet as a
conduit for all people, and not just those that can
afford it.

Sincerely,Bill Kernodle

http://www,revelationimports.com



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