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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed change to .org registry agreement
by Donald Sarratt April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Neruthes (a.k.a. J.N.) 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. Sent from my iPad

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

April 26, 2019

There is a difference between .org, a legacy extension created with the support of the US government, that even predates the existence of ICANN and the brand new extensions that have been added. While the new extensions have different rules, no price controls, and no existing registrants, the .org extensions have countless existing owners, different characteristics, different history, and a different ownership structure. How can ICANN justify ignoring these differences when proposing that they be treated the same. It is not fair to the millions of existing owners of .org domains. To make matter worse, .org domains are commonly used for non-profit organizations, who may be forced into abandoning their domains if the cost of renewal becomes prohibitive, costing these organizations enormous amounts of money in rebranding. ICANN must respect and protect the owners of .org domain names.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] price changes for internet domains like .org
by Stuart Bradbury April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Dear sir/madam I run several web-sites for my Honeybee and Allotment sites etc. I can tell you that, if the price we pay is not controlled at a very low level, both domains will be dropped and we will just use ip addresses. This will be a sad loss of information to non-members, ie the rest of the world. My view is that annual fees are practically 'money for nothing' and the current charge is hardly justifiable. I hope you keep things as they are - or even make charges cheaper. yours sincerely S Bradbury

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

April 26, 2019

I am a .org registrant (not-for-profit). 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. I like the new gTLDs but what i don't like is that some of these TLDs have nightmare prices which i can't pay as private domain owner. While i understand that some TLDs are more a premium TLD, i think that the prices of all TLDs should be limited.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by ANIS El Achèche 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, El Acheche Anis Sent from a mobile device with. Please excuse brevity and typos.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against the removal of price limits on .org TLD
by Cristian Léonardo Ugarte Romero April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

The org TLD is overwhelmingly used by non-profits and by allowing the rates to be aligned to market value, ICANN may make it significantly more difficult for non-profits to do business on the internet or raise barriers to entry for new non-profits. As a supporter/volunteer/contributor to a number of non-profits, I can assure you that domain registration costs can be problematic for other TLDs used by non-profits. Allowing org TLD prices to rise would have a negative impact on the non-profit community. Cristian Ugarte Lecturer University of Geneva Switzerland

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by olivier.lechevalier＠gmail.com 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!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Dot org pricing
by Shawn Stevenson April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Removing caps on dot org domain with have dramatic effects on the majority of the nonprofit organizations which utilize this top level domain name. Please keep the caps that are currently in place. Shawn Stevenson Washington State, USA Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment - .org renewal
by Damian Martin April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hello, I would like to comment on the .org renewal proposal, in particular section 2.10 regarding pricing cap. Many .org domains are used by non-profit and charitable organisations who will be placed in financial distress if renewal fees rise substantially. Is it possible to keep the cap for registered NFP, charity and maybe open source orgainsations? Kind regards, Damian Martin IS Technical Coordinator [https://mobile.phcs.org.au/clo/Avivo.jpg] D: (08) 9442 7221 T: 1300 428 486 30 Hasler Road Osborne Park WA 6017 avivo.org.au Avivo acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures, and to elders past and present.

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