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I did find some complaints back to last year, but there were lots of "issues". Why is raising prices bad. How does that warrant preventing this sale?

It's not like .org lives in a bubble. There are many other TLDs that they have to compete with on price.

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They don't compete on price for renewals when you own one of the 10 million existing domains.

Because it’s not just any TLD. It’s one of the very few special ones that has a very clearly defined origination and governance (well it did for the first decade or so at least).

Capitalism + the underpinnings of the Internet don’t exactly play well together (hence the need for clearly defined net neutrality codified by law). And arbitrarily raising prices on already existing domains registered by people and non-profits who bought in when there were rules in place about such prices is actually wrong.

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