Spurious Justifications for Eliminating Price Caps on .org and Legacy Domains
Couple of questions:<p>First, why does ICANN keep insist on picking on .org?  In 2004, or thereabouts, .org owners saw a proposal to restrict that gTLD to just not-for-profit and community groups.  Considering .org was originally listed as the gTLD for "this doesn't fit into any of the other categories" (back when we actually enforced that .net be a network operator and .com be a business), this would have booted a whole lot of individuals and unorganized groups out of the space.  It was also the first gTLD to be foisted onto Verisign, though it got moved to Public Interest Registry in 2003.<p>Which brings up the second question, why would PIR want price caps to be removed for the .org gTLD?  PIR is, supposedly, not-for-profit itself and is owned by the Internet Society, a <i>very</i> not-for-profit group.  Shouldn't PIR be pushing for .org fees to be as low as possible to sustain its mission of effectively operating the .org gTLD for as many people as it can?  Shouldn't PIR be acting more like a credit union and less like a Verisign?