Edited sentence: In protest many webring members and webring managers abandoned their memberships, deleted their memberships or boycotted Webring Inc.It is estimated that between 70% to 90% of Webring's 500,000+ members are deleting their listings/webrings.Many members of Webring consider this a ploy from the Webring Administration to "make a huge profit".Members would be charged extra based on how many site listings they had and how many webrings they managed.On September 26 2006, Webring Inc.Since then several new start up sites have appeared and started beta-testing in an effort to create free webring-like services that are advertising supported.There is no news on exact figures on how webrings and sites have been deleted as the result of Webring's recent changes.Webring Inc.already makes a profit from advertising on their websites.announced Premium Membership levels, believing they could start charging their users for use of the Webring system