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by eridius 2541 days ago
> How is that different in domain names? If the name is available, you buy it and use it.

Because in the absence of price caps the registrar can choose to increase the price on "valuable" domain names (for whatever arbitrary criteria it decides means a domain is "valuable").
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lunchables 2540 days ago
He wasn't speaking about .org domains specifically:

>The whole domain market experience is utter crap. Commoditizing domain names has created such an unbalanced power dynamic between buyers and sellers where the sellers hold all the power. Gatekeeping at it's finest.

He's speaking in the present/past tense, so obviously he can't be referring to what may happen in the future with .org domain names.

So I'm comparing incorporating a business purchasing a domain name, today.

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gist 2541 days ago
All .org and .info domains will be priced the same. Not more valuable ones can be at a higher cost.
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dgellow 2541 days ago
Not anymore, that's exactly what the article is about.

> ICANN has agreed to remove price restrictions on .org domain names, letting the domain’s manager, Public Interest Registry, charge as much as it wants for the domains. (It also agreed to let .info manager Afilias charge whatever it wants for .info.)

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gist 2540 days ago
You are wrong. All .org domains will be priced the same as will .info domains. They can't decide a particular .org domain is worth more than another (that has already been registered and is being used). They can charge what they want but they can't differentiate between domains. And the quote you gave essentially says that.

This is different than a completely new tld whereby they might decide that a name is premium. The point is no legacy domain will be priced as premium. I guess in theory if it expires they might be able to do that but the 'can charge what they want' will not impact existing domain registrations. And in the case of a valuable domain if that were released it would be grabbed at auction and not available for the simple registration fee.

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eridius 2539 days ago
We're not talking about renewing already-registered domains.
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