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by garaetjjte 2397 days ago
>Our plan is to live within the spirit of historic practice when it comes to pricing, which means, potentially, annual price increases of up to 10 percent on average – which today would equate to approximately $1 per year.

This is very weasel worded way to say that price would double every 7.27 years... (and this is only "Our plan")
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chii 2397 days ago
10% is at least 3x annual inflation rate. That's too much imho.

Monopolies should be regulated - domain name administration is a natural monopoly.

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tehjoker 2397 days ago
I would go further, they shouldn't be "regulated", this is a public service that should be run in the interests of society as a whole and not for the benefit of a private actor. We should have a tax funding mechanism, and run it either as a nationalized utility or through an international commission.
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shadowgovt 2397 days ago
How so? There are a great many TLDs in the market.
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chii 2397 days ago
There's only 1 .org TLD - and it's meaning cannot be replicated with another TLD.

It's the same as a TV series - there are great many TV series , but only 1 Game of Thrones on HBO, and it's not substitutable. Therefore, HBO has a monopoly on Game of Thrones.

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shadowgovt 2397 days ago
That's not at all how monopolies work, and nobody is going to break up HBO for having exclusive control of Game of Thrones.

> and it's meaning cannot be replicated with another TLD.

anything-org.us, anything-org.xyz, anything-org.com, or even just disregard bothering with .org entirely since it literally has no meaning; there's no enforcement on the soft policy that it represent non-profits. For example, slashdot.org is owned by BizX.

Old-guard nerds have nostalgic attachment to the .org TLD's history; that's it. It's hardly a case that it's a monopoly.

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ta0987 2397 days ago
What if you already have a .org domain that you actually use?

How would you like it if your phone company started charging you extra to keep your phone number, and told you, there's plenty of other phone numbers you can have, we won't charge extra for those

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shadowgovt 2397 days ago
You mean "How did I like it when my email provider increased their rates?" I switched email providers and updated my email address with my relevant contacts.

It was annoying, but nobody claims seriously that email providers are a monopoly.

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dorfsmay 2397 days ago
10% per year!

That 3 to 4 times recent historic and near future projection for inflation rates.

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