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

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

April 26, 2019

I am a domain name 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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment from RadioDNS in respect of the proposed renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Nick Piggott (RadioDNS) April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

RadioDNS is the not-for-profit membership organisation which coordinates the global development of hybrid broadcast radio. Central to our function is the provision and diligent management of a root name server operated at radiodns.org. Our domain is referenced by many broadcast radio stations and consumer electronic devices. We raise a concern regarding the proposal to remove the “Maximum Service Fee” mechanism from the new Registry Agreement. This appears to create an uncontrolled cost risk to the users of the domain, many of whom, like us, are non-commercial and not-for-profit organisations with limited financial resources. There seems to be no basis for this proposed change other than to create alignment with other registry agreements, thus removing the fundamentally differentiated and protected nature of .org for organisations like ours. Nick Piggott Project Director RadioDNS www.radiodns.org // @radiodns // +44 1600 888335 // +1 (850)-888 8335 RadioDNS Limited is a not-for-profit company owned by its members, and registered in England and Wales with number 08818015. The registered office is 113 Parson St, Bristol BS3 5QH, United Kingdom

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment
by Sven Olaf Oostenbrink April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Good to see that pure unadulterated greed still has its sticky fingers everywhere. This will be bad for everyone except the select few making the decisions.

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

April 26, 2019

I have always believed ICANN to have the Registrants' best interest in mind. 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!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not remove price cap.
by Laurent Frigault April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

utf8=✓ authenticity_token=VO8bUg0CXpP9Nw8hAZojGagCgVL9nxc5xkuFtL9xOQwCKp22REt53kieIl67HIOY1l9+hAlV9beWHH6fA5lfRw== terms_of_services=yes commit=Continue Removing the limit on price increases is unacceptable.It would change the rules for existing domains.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not do evil!
by 赖信桃 April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

The internet is prosperous today thanks to that people are easy have their own domain and open new site. Do not kill internet.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org for the public interest
by Kenneth Topp April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

I really haven't been a fan of many of ICAAN policies and your position regarding uncapping rate increases on .org is yet another example of how distorted ICAAN has become. all gTLD's are not the same, and the .org predate ICAAN, originally belonged to american people and shouldn't be subject to your decision to allow unjustified rate increases. There should be a "constitution" of sorts for .com .net and .org that prevent the technocrats at ICAAN or the corporate registries that run those gTLDs from interfering from the original intent of these gTLDs. ken t.

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

April 26, 2019

I am a domain name registrant. ICANN does not seem to recognize the difference between a legacy extension created with the support of the US government, that predates the existence of ICANN and that has millions of existing users and the brand new extensions that started off with a new set of rules, in particular no price controls, and no existing registrants. They have completely different characteristics, history, and ownership structure. It is not acceptable for ICANN to ignore these differences and to propose that they be treated the same. Removing price caps is not fair to .org domain owners. Many of them have websites that they have used for years. If price caps are removed, the cost to renew their domain names may become too expensive, and they could be forced to give up websites that are important to them. The Uniform Rapid Suspension policy is too new and untested to apply on domain names that may be 20 years old or more. With the URS, the domain names could be taken down in a matter of days with little notice. ICANN should be doing more to protect owners of .org domain names. Why is ICANN trying to remove price protections for .org domain owners, so many of which are non-profits, so that they can be overcharged for their domain names?

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

April 26, 2019

I am a domain name registrant. Removing price caps is not fair to .org domain owners. Many of them have websites that they have used for years. If price caps are removed, the cost to renew their domain names may become too expensive, and they could be forced to give up websites that are important to them. ICANN should be doing more to protect owners of .org domain names. Why is ICANN trying to remove price protections for .org domain owners, so many of which are non-profits, so that they can be overcharged for their domain names?

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on .org registry agreement renewal
by Tobias Kappé April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Sir, madam, Many years ago, I have bought a .org domain and have become dependent on its availability. The price cap provision in the registry agreement ensures that I am able to afford renewing this domain every year. I implore you not to remove this price cap provision, because the resulting price increases would very quickly force me to let the domain registration lapse. Best regards, Tobias Kappé

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