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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Uncapped price rises to .org will hurt charities, churches, non-profits and individuals
by James April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

As a .org domain owner, the proposed removal of the price cap is alarming. .org is mostly used by non-profit organisations of various sorts who could be badly hurt by uncapped price increases.?

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by Sara Cope April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

The .org domain extension should not have its price caps removed.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the cap! Stop runaway .ORG pricing
by Joe Westcott April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hello, I'm calling on you to keep the .ORG domain price restrictions in place, in order to protect nonprofits and the life-changing work that they do. As you know, many nonprofit organizations have small budgets, but they deliver big results: Nonprofit organizations feed the hungry and shelter the homeless, without any extra cost to you. They fund life-saving research. And they provide educational opportunities that lead to innovations that improve all of our lives. Nonprofits often rely on their website to reach the people they serve, and in many cases, their budgets are set by what people donate through the nonprofit's website. If you remove caps on .org prices, .ORG domain prices could rise to hundreds or thousands of dollars per year, like some non-US domain prices already have. This would decimate lean and local nonprofits, and make the world a worse place for all of us. Please, keep the .org domain price restrictions in place. Thank you, Joe Westcott Nonprofit Technology Consultant -- *Joe Westcott* joe(a)joewestcott.com (347) 674-8874 <+13476748874> direct *Made with <3 in Brooklyn, New York*

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Public comment regarding .org
by Victor M Gajardo April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

To whom concerned, It will not be okay to remove the price cap if you have allowed only one company to offer the .org domain. It will only cause the cost to register to skyrocket due to the lack of a shared market self regulating the price. There are over 10 million non-profits that will have to redirect funds that could be used for other things within their organization. Please consider all the long term effects this will have. You could be prevent children from sleeping in a bed, a parent feeding their children, or a person getting the help they need. Lets try to make sure we do good in the world and keep a good ethical standards in place when doing business. I appreciate your time. Regards, Victor Gajardo

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org cap
by Joshua Collinsworth April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Please do NOT remove the cap on .org domains. This will do nothing but empower the few and powerful at the expense of the many and the vulnerable. Raising rates on .org domains will force organizations doing good work to put their money toward lining the pockets of a monopoly rather than doing the good work they do in the world. Please don't allow this wrong. Thank you.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Pavol Markovič April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

I am a .org registrant (non-profit). I've read about a lot of bad decisions under the UDRP. The URS seems even worse. I heard the URS is very new and is being reviewed now to see if it is working properly. It is too soon to include an untested policy on .org domains where for a few hundred dollars anyone could try to shut down someone else's website. Telling the .org registry that it can charge any price it wants for renewing a domain name is a terrible idea. Why would you allow them to set a crazy high price? They could try to force the domain owners to pay a very high price each year to renew their domain name, and if the domain owner either won't or can't, then the .org registry could take away their domain name, set a high registration price on it, and then try to find someone else who is willing to pay a high price for it. This is very unfair to long time .org domain owners who may see their prices raised sky high for no reason. You let the new domain extensions charge any price they want, but that hasn't gone so well. Lots of people got burned when the new registries offered low rates for the first year, and then after people registered the domain names and some built web sites on them, some of the prices were raised through the roof. .Org has been working just fine for decades where the prices maybe go up a little bit each year. Allowing huge price increases from one year to the next could ruin .org for everybody. I think you should pay a little more attention to what is good for the owners of .org domain names. The registries are doing fine. They don't need your help as they are already making plenty of money.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Agung Andika April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

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 .org 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, Agung Andika

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .ORG renewal price comments
by Vikram Chhatre April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hello ICANN, By and large, the .ORG domains are purchased, renewed and maintained by not-for-profit organizations and individuals. Therefore, it makes little sense not to regulate the renewal pricing of this TLD. I urge you to re-consider your proposed actions which will do nothing but stifle innovation and loss of a large number of .ORG domains. Thanks Vikram Chhatre, PhD www.popgen.ORG http://strauto.popgen.ORG http://distruct2.popgen.ORG

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by UKDomains April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

I am a .org domain registrant. I oppose the proposed new removal of price caps for .org domain names for non-profits. Domain names are indeed a small amount to pay for a website, but why should the end user have to pay extra for something that will have no added value added to it. As a largely automated process, the price increase will do nothing more than line the pockets of large corporations, not sparing a thought for non-profit organisations that struggle to make ends meet if donations are small. UKDomains.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Unlimited Price Hikes Crush Small Organizations
by Marie Watkins April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

To ICANN staff responsible for this action: By allowing unlimited price hikes for .org, .info and .biz legacy TLDs, you are essentially putting non-profits and small businesses at the mercy of a monopoly, possibly crushing whole segments of the online (and offline) economy all over the world. If ICANN is truly a "public-benefit corporation" please consider the potentially devastating harm that would come to millions of people with legitimate organizations operating under these TLDs by letting a cartel enrich itself at the expense of "the little guy" and how it would affect "One World, One Internet", as your motto goes... Please do not allow this proposal to go through. Regards, Marie Watkins

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