May 2019 - comments-biz-renewal-03apr19@icann.org

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May 28, 2019

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[Comments-biz-renewal-03apr19] (no subject)
by Richard Lanoszka May 23, 2019

May 23, 2019

It is disgraceful to promote self interest or .biz registry. Stop the .BIZ price increase and URS! I am a .biz registrant and I strongly oppose uncapped price increases in .biz domains and the introduction of URS. Shame on you ICANN for even suggesting a comment period for such despicable changes to the legacy extensions: .org (PIR), .biz (Neustar), .info (Afilias) and .asia (DotAsia Organisation Ltd. and Afilias). Richard Lanoszka Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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[Comments-biz-renewal-03apr19] Comments of Intellectual Property Constituency re Proposed Renewal of .biz Registry Agreement
by Brian Scarpelli May 15, 2019

May 15, 2019

On behalf of the GNSO Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC), please find attached IPC comments of regarding the proposed renewal of .biz Registry Agreement. The IPC stands ready to assist ICANN in any further ways possible moving forward. Best, Brian Scarpelli Senior Global Policy Counsel +1 517-507-1446<mailto:+1%20517-507-1446> | bscarpelli(a)actonline.org<mailto:bscarpelli@actonline.org> ACT | The App Association 1401 K St NW (Ste 501) Washington, DC 20005

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[Comments-biz-renewal-03apr19] Domain price increases
by Michelle Wallace Hamilton May 15, 2019

May 15, 2019

Many domains are run by small business owners. They are using the web to reduce over head to compensate for the ever growing taxation and fees for running a business. Increasing domain prices cuts in to the income needed to support a household. Please do not increase domain prices. Regards, Michelle

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[Comments-biz-renewal-03apr19] INTA Comments
by Lori Schulman May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019

Attached please find INTA comments. Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. Lori Schulman Senior Director, Internet Policy International Trademark Association 1250 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 700 Washington DC, USA +1-202-704-0408, skype: lsschulman www.inta.org<http://www.inta.org/> [2019_AM_Boston_register (003)] Find us on: [Description: Description: Description: cid:F361C18F-02FE-4CF0-A43E-AA8566DC2514] Twitter<https://twitter.com/INTA> [Description: Description: LinkedIn] LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=69899> [Description: Description: facebook-logo (2)] Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/GoINTA?ref=ts> [Description: Description: pnpb_sig.png]

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[Comments-biz-renewal-03apr19] Opposing removal of pricing restrictions on dot biz domain names
by pub 144 May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019

Hello, I was terribly disappointed when I heard ICANN was considering removing price caps on dot biz domain names, as well as other legacy tld's. Millions of registrants - low-income individuals, mom-and-pop businesses - rely in their presence on the Internet for their livelihood. This presence, their domain name, is now jeopardized by potential price hikes related to the removal of price caps, which threatens to raise the price they pay for their Internet presence significantly. Dot biz domains - along with dot org, dot com, etc - have millions of registrants who are locked in to using these domains because they have invested their hard work and efforts into these domains. They cannot just pick up and go if they can't afford significant price hikes. If price restrictions are removed, these registries can raise their prices sky-high in theory by instituting premium pricing for premium domains. Nothing justifies the transfer of money from hard-working registrants to fatcat registries who simply provide a basic service that costs a minimal amount of money to provide. Please do not pump literally billions of dollars into these companies bank accounts. Registrants will suffer. The registries have a strong financial position and are solidly profitable as is. They enjoy a strong profit margin at current wholesale pricing levels. Raising prices significantly from here is unnecessary for the financial health of the registries and detrimental to average consumers who rely on fair and stable pricing of domains. Help protect small business people around the world and do not let one or two powerful entities suck up all the money from hardworking citizens who have built up the brand power of these tld's by putting their domains to work. Consumers around the world are watching these developments with fear as ICANN seems prepared to do whatever the registries want them to do, at the expense of registrants, who are just average people. Keep the internet affordable for them and say no to price hikes and removing pricing restrictions. Please do your part as an independent governing body to limit the nearly unchecked power of these entrenched near-monopolies. Consumers around the world need ICANN to look out for their interests too, not just the dot biz, dot org, dot com registries and others financial powerhouses. I oppose the removal of price restrictions on dot biz domains. Sincerely, Matthew Klein

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[Comments-biz-renewal-03apr19] Business Constituency (BC) comment on Proposed Renewal of .biz Registry Agreement
by Steve DelBianco May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019

Attached is the comment of ICANN’s Business Constituency (BC), regarding the Proposed Renewal of .biz Registry Agreement. This Comment was drafted by Steve DelBianco, Mark Datysgeld, and Andrew Mack. It was approved in accord with our Charter. -- Steve DelBianco Vice Chair for Policy Coordination ICANN Business Constituency (BC)

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[Comments-biz-renewal-03apr19] Public Comment of Rabbi Shalom Arush, Head of the "Chut Shel Chessed" Institutions on Proposed Renewal of .biz Registry Agreement
by Rubin International Law Firm and Notary May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019

May 13h 2019 ICANN 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 USA Public comment on the Proposed Renewal of .biz Registry Agreement Executive Summary Renewal of the .biz registry agreement with Registry Services, LLC should be assessed against the background of the Internet addiction global problem. According to academic research, Internet addiction disorder (IAD) results in personal, family, and occupational problems. Internet addiction can be decomposed into several subtypes of behavior and impulse control problems, namely, Debauchery, cyber-relationship addiction, net compulsions, information overload, compulsive web surfing or database searches and net gaming. Internet gaming has been classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a disease in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). There is a large correlation between addiction to online social networks and generalized Internet addiction. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that Facebook has created are destroying how society works and it is eroding the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other. Smartphones and the social media platforms they support are turning us into bona fide addicts. Platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram leverage the very same neural circuitry used by slot machines and cocaine to keep us using their products as much as possible. Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) ruins lives by causing neurological complications, psychological disturbances, and social problems. Smartphone or Internet addiction can also negatively impact your life by increasing loneliness and depression, fueling anxiety, increasing stress, exacerbating attention deficit disorders, diminishing your ability to concentrate and think deeply or creatively, disturbing your sleep and encouraging self-absorption. The psychopathological overlap between IA, substance addiction and pathological gambling suggests a common neurobiological substrate, involving a dopamine dysfunction of the neural "reward systems". Debauchery destroys the brain. Lust and promiscuity, explains Nachman of Breslev, lead to a breakdown of logic, common sense and even insanity. The proof is that in this decadent age, so many people are in need of psychiatric medication, whereas millions suffer from anxiety and depression. All the people who are out of their minds, because they fell into the difficult disease of looking at women and all kinds of filthy movies on the Internet, on the iPhone, Facebook, etc., to the point of burning lust in real madness. Gambling is a terrible sickness, even more addictive than alcohol, tobacco and drugs. The lust for money is the root cause of gambling affliction, which not only drives a person insane, but makes him or her lose faith in the Creator, and truth and emuna in His Divine providence, Heaven forbid. The gambler is cruel to his family. The owners and operators of gambling parlors are outright murderers. ICANN, some ICANN-accredited registrars, some registry operators and some Domain Name Registrants are fostering Internet Addiction. Registry Services, LLC is fostering Internet addiction. Fostering Internet addiction is a disastrous violation of fundamental human rights and GAC Communiqué - Beijing, People's Republic of China. Fostering Internet addiction by ICANN, some ICANN-accredited registrars, some registry operators and some Domain Name registrants is a violation of applicable laws. Fostering Internet addiction is a violation of ICANN's Articles of Incorporation, Board of Directors' Code of Conduct, Governance Guidelines, Commitments, Core Values and By-Laws. In view of the above, we require ICANN to terminate immediately the activities fostering Internet addiction, including the performance of relevant IANA functions, relevant gTLD activities, relevant Registry Operators' activities, relevant ICANN-accredited registrars' activities, including through RESP and amendments of registry and registrar agreements and to refrain from renewing the .biz registry agreement with Registry Services, LLC unless Registry Services, LLC and its related companies terminate immediately activities fostering Internet addiction and the .biz registry agreement is amended to prohibit Internet addiction activities. Rabbi Shalom Arush Head of the "Chut Shel Chessed" Institutions For the full article, please see the attachment. -------- The Universal Garden of Emuna Author: Rabbi Shalom Arush The Universal Garden of Emuna What's the consolation in knowing that the world is full of strife when our personal lives are a never-ending saga of stress, worry, anxiety and challenges? Making a living today is like being a 21st Century gladiator. Family units are falling apart and marital bliss seems like a pipedream. People face child-education problems that they never imagined. What can a person do to maintain sanity? If sanity is such a struggle, who dares to dream of genuine happiness, fulfillment and true inner peace? You do. As soon as you open up the first page of the new Universal Garden of Emuna by internationally acclaimed best-selling author Shalom Arush, whose books have helped millions of people around the globe live better lives, you gain the master-key to life's locked doors, especially the doors to fulfilling your own personal potential. Far from flash-in-the-pan fad spirituality, the new non-denomenational Universal Garden of Emuna takes the reader by the hand along the proven path to satisfaction of the soul. By learning emuna - the pure and simple faith in the Creator - the reader learns how to cultivate an intimate personal relationship with the Creator. This book will quickly become your best friend, a book you'll want to read over and over! A complete and total life-changer! By world-renowned spiritual guide and bestselling author Shalom Arush, translated by Lazer Brody. 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[Comments-biz-renewal-03apr19] Price raise .biz inacceptable
by Peter Leuzinger May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019

Hello Icann On one site, the ngTLDs are dropping prices in order to sell more of the unnessary TLDs, and on the other site, .biz should not become more expensive. Our clients do not accept any higher price for a .biz domain name. Kind regards, Peter -- _________________________________________________________ Sicher sicher sein - Safe be safe global IP action AG, Bahnhofstrasse 3, CH-8808 Pfäffikon Peter Leuzinger, CEO *https://www.globalipaction.ch * M +41 79 660 86 35 T. +41 55 420 11 12 F. +41 55 420 11 13 E. p.leuzinger(a)globalipaction.ch Skype: peterleuzinger The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or the use of, or taking any action in reliance upon this information by person or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from the computer. global IP action AG and its partners reserve the right to retain, intercept and monitor any e-mail communication through its networks if legally allowed.

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[Comments-biz-renewal-03apr19] Removal of price caps for .biz
by Paul Shaw May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019

I oppose the removal of piece caps for the .biz extension. This would be a burden for registrants who could potentially face large price increase. The cost of shifting to a new extension would be very high in terms of of lost search engine rankings, changes to letterheads and logos, lost emails and confused customers. Registrants deserve to be protected from these large price changes as it is not the terms under which they registered these domains.

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