Domain registration pricing

["Digital Income, Inc." <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To the ICANN Board,

It's been brought to our attention that there are no caps to the potential 
price increases in the .org registry contract and that this has the 
potential to allow registries to increase prices on domains according to 
the perceived value of individual domains.
If this method of domain pricing were to take effect in the .org registry, 
we're afraid that within time it could be implemented within the two main 
registries ie- .com and .net, and if this were to happen I'm not sure we 
could maintain our online business as we have for the past 10 years. We 
wouldn't know what our domain renewal expenses would be from year to year. 
This is not a business model we presently have.
Some possible scenarios of a sliding scale registration pricing might be-

-If we were to spend a great deal of money developing and promoting a site 
only to find the annual registration fee were going up based on the "value" 
of the domain, we could not and it would not be wise for us to plan on 
developing the site further. The more we put into making the site 
successful, the more it would cost us in registration fees, and we would 
have no guarantee where the cap would be. Also, we would question who would 
be in-charge of determining what our domain was worth and would there be 
any options for discussion? Simply put, it would not be feasible for us to 
spend money without knowing our expenses.
-Or on another note, if we were to simple park our domain at a Pay Per 
Click provider, spend zero dollars in development would the registration 
fee drop because of little value in the domain?
-Another possibility of continually raising registration fees would be the 
potential tidal wave of costly and time consuming lawsuits and litigation 
that ICANN itself would have to deal with from the millions of impacted 
domain owners. I'm sure the bigger online company's like Google.com, 
Amazon.com, Priceline.com would be very upset if their annual domain 
registration fees were in the tens of thousands of dollars based on the 
success of their hard work and expense.
This being said, I respectfully request that you reconsider and reconstruct 
the contracts and remove this no price caps clause completely.
Regards,

Digital Income, Inc.
per- Thomas Gibson CEO