April 2019 - comments-info-renewal-18mar19@icann.org

[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] info pricing
by Burt Culver April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Please do not change the domain pricing policy for .info domains. Allowing the prices of domains to increase dramatically whill mean that non-profits and small companies will struggle to pay for their domain names and will eventually be priced off the internet. Regards, Burt Burt Culver Los Angeles, CA

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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] CHUT SHEL CHESSED'S PUBLIC COMMENT SUBMITTED BY RABBI SHALOM ARUSH ON PROPOSED RENEWAL OF .INFO REGISTRY AGREEMENT
by RUBIN INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM AND NOTARY April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Hi, Please find enclosed the Public Comment regarding the Proposed Renewal of .info Registry Agreement, of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions submitted by Rabbi Shalom Arush, Head of the Institutions. Regards Jean-Philippe Naftali Rubin, International lawyer since 1992 LLM BA MA Licensed in Israel and in Europe Member of the forums of international law and cyber law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rubin International Law Firm & Notary Avinoam Yelin 11 St., POB 5552 Jerusalem, Israel Tel: +972-(0)2-6422295 - Fax: +972-(0)2-6311227 Cellular: +972-(0)544-705-200 Website: <http://www.advrubin.com/> www.advrubin.com Email: <mailto:naftali.rubin@gmail.com> naftali.rubin(a)gmail.com info(a)advrubin.com <mailto:info@advrubin.com>

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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] Dont modify the agreement to uncap renewal increases
by Hiram Munn April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I find it troubling that the proposed change would remove renewal fee caps on existing .info domains. This change would remove the stability that the core, "legacy" domains provide new and upcoming businesses, as well as protected entrenched businesses from being punished for succeeding in business. Please stop/do not make this change. It only seeks to further commercialize and exploit the internet. - Hiram Munn Concerned Domain Registrant

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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] .info price caps
by jules hummon April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

It is completely unfair to the nonprofits serving the public good, to be charged for their .info domain name as if they were a for-profit company and had money to spare. I reject this proposed increase.

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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] Objection to removal of .info price cap
by Benjamin Esham April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Hello, I am writing with regard to the terms of the proposed renewal of the .info registry agreement; specifically, with the removal of the price cap provisions in the current version of the agreement. As the owner of a .info domain, this provision protects me from arbitrary, capricious, and unearned increases in the price of my domain registration. New registrants of .info domains should get the same protection. The removal of the price cap would enrich wholesale registries while providing no benefit to—and, indeed, hurting—everyone else. Please do not adopt any agreement that removes the price cap. Thank you, Benjamin Esham

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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .info Registry Agreement
by SP April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Dear Sirs, I am a domain name registrant. Legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit new gTLDs and should be treated that way. Legacy TLDs are what the internet was built on. They are essentially a public trust. They are very different than new gTLDs which were created, bought and paid for by private parties. Registrants of these legacy extensions should be entitled to price predictability & stability. Advancements in technology should be driving the cost of operating a registry down, yet prices keep going up? Removing price caps is unfair to the millions of domain registrants. They will have no price protections. Every registrant will be at the complete mercy and whims of the registry. This could result in a transfer of funds from millions of non-profits to one non-profit, with no benefits to the domain registrants. ICANN is supposed to represent a "bottom up, consensus-driven multistakeholder model". ICANN should not unilaterally impose URS in legacy TLDs when that issue is precisely what is being examined by the volunteer ICANN Working Group who has been mandated to review this issue. ICANN should be looking out for the .info registrants, in particular the non-profits. There is no "public benefit" justification to these changes. It is just a handout to business at the expense of registrants’ rights and protections. Where are the protections for the millions of domain registrants that this could effect in a negative way? These changes would give way too much power to the registry. This is not acceptable for a "public benefit" organization that exists to represent many stakeholders. -- Regards, SP

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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] Price cap removal an abdication of responsibility
by Kevin Ohashi April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Removing the price cap on legacy gTLDs is an act of regulatory capture, plain and simple. These are non-competitive, monopoly contracts providing internet services with diminishing costs at scale and for years ICANN has allowed them to raise their prices on consumers. The fixed increases were bad enough, but uncapping it and saying the market will decide is dangerous and irresponsible. Do your job properly and keep price cap provisions in the contract. Kevin Ohashi

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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] Comment on updated registry agreement with .INFO operator
by Philip Gladstone April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

The big reason for using the legacy TLDs was (and still is) the predictability in future costs of domain registration and renewal. As a registrant in .INFO, I object to any change in the agreements with the registry operator that would allow them to increase prices arbitrarily. I have spent many years building up my website and its associated name and will essentially be held hostage if the .INFO operator increases prices arbitrarily. The amount of revenue to be extracted from .INFO is probably maximized by increasing prices significantly -- even though there would be *no* new registrations. It is a lot easier to multiply prices by a factor of 10, rather than increase the number of domains registered by (more than) a factor of 10. It also isn't obvious to me that this wouldn't allow prices to be increased based on the (say) Alexa rank of the domain name. Maybe just set the price for a top 100 Alex website to $1MM/yr and the operator wouldn't lose many of those customers. Also, it isn't clear *why* ICANN is proposing this change -- it feels like a giveaway to the existing operators who did *nothing* to create the value of the TLD, but just operated the TLD on behalf of ICANN (and the legacy TLDs predate ICANN itself). This is different from the new gTLDs where the applicant is creating the value for themselves. How much *value* does ICANN think is being transferred to the INFO operator though this change, and how much did the .INFO operator have to give to ICANN (or its staff) to get this reward? Philip Gladstone

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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] Comment re: .info price cap lift
by Samuel Reed April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

The Internet is a public resource and it is ICANN's responsibility to be the caretakers for it, not to extract maximum profit from it. The proposed cap lift on .info, .org, and .biz is the beginning of the end for the democratization of the Internet and DNS as a whole. When we all got on the Internet, we thought we had truly discovered something different, something democratic, by the people for the people. Please don't prove a whole generation wrong for dollars.

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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] Comment re .INFO registry renewal from John Poole, DomainMondo.com
by John Poole April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Comment re .INFO registry renewal from John Poole, DomainMondo.com is attached (pdf).

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