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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org TLD renewal
by Iván Herrero April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hello, As a domain owner under the .org TLD, I'd like to express my disconformity with the idea of allowing the Public Interest Registry (PIR) set whatever prices it wants to domain renewals. Thanks, have a great day.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Peleda Katinas April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

this can't be done as this will increase all costs of everything by the start of domain name and ending to real offline life things

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Michael Xander 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.

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

April 26, 2019

I am a .org registrant. 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. Regards Albert

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

April 26, 2019

I am a .org 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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please, don't pave a way for racket
by Denis Zalevskiy April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Absence of cap for existing non-for-profit domains like .org opens the hole for a racket: when the infrastructure for .org domains was already established and domain is used for a long time, it becomes a real pain for owners to switch to another domain. This knowledge can be used to skyrocket prices for existing domains and squeeze these money from owners.

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

April 26, 2019

I am a domain name registrant. ICANN staff 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 policy making is supposed to be a ‘bottom up, multi-stakeholder model’. I believe that legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit new gTLDs. Legacy TLDs are essentially a public trust, unlike new gTLDs which were created, bought and paid for by private interests. Registrants of legacy TLDs are entitled to price stability and predictability, and should not be subject to price increases with no maximums. Unlike new gTLDs, registrants of legacy TLDs registered their names and made their online presence on legacy TLDs on the basis that price caps would continue to exist. Unrestrained price increases on the millions of .org registrants who are not-for-profits or non-profits would be unfair to them. Unchecked price increases have the potential to result in hundreds of millions of dollars being transferred from these organizations to one non-profit, the Internet Society, with .org registrants receiving no benefit in return. ICANN should not allow one non-profit nearly unlimited access to the funds of other non-profits. ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing price caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants! Göran Klessig

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] remove price restrictions
by Samir Saeedi April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by steer grid April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Do not increase the Price of the Domains. There are so many people out there who strive and dream of getting success with no money. The Single Domain Could be their starting point for the billion dollar business dream. If you take that away from them. You take the hope away from their life. The Price is already costly for people from India and other Growing countries. So Please do not increase the price.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Concern re potential price hikes for NGOs using an .org domain name
by imisupport＠imimediation.org April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Dear Team, After a prompt from our web host, we would like to register our concern in relation to potential price hikes for .org domains following proposed changes to pricing structures (i.e. moving from a maximum 10% raise per year to unlimited raises per year). We are an NGO with a very tight budget using .org addresses, and I imagine we are not the only ones who are deeply concerned about potential budgetary problems that may result from this initiative. We ask that you reconsider removal of the price raise limits. Kind regards, Laura Laura Skillen Director of External Relations - IMI <http://www.linkedin.com/in/lauramayskillen> www.linkedin.com/in/lauramayskillen I am available part-time only. Please excuse any delay in response, and see our website at <http://www.imimediation.org/> www.imimediation.org for answers to common enquiries.

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