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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Ryan Kegley 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. Sincerely, Ryan Kegley

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by ir＠conhuge.co April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

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

April 26, 2019

I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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! Sudarn

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org
by Eva Alexandropoulos April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

By removing the caps on .org, . Biz and . Info you give empower these monopolies to set prices with no regulation This is unfair business practice and negatively impacts small business owners Stop it from happening Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Skylar Ittner 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. -- Skylar Ittner Netsyms Technologies https://netsyms.com (406) 404-7177

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

April 26, 2019

Please retain the current low domain renewal prices. Thank you for not increasing or making it possible for the current price cap to be lifted.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Oppose price cap removal
by Lorri Hubbard April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

I am writing to oppose the removal of price caps on any of the “legacy” domains. Our domain has been established for over 20 years. Please do not make changes to the current process. It works well just as it is. Lorri Hubbard Board Member Nancy Harmon Ministry nancyharmon.org Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] For Shame
by Aaron Krohn April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

I look to ICANN, an organization of individuals, to do the right thing for domain owners and humans living on this planet. When we forsake our dignity for greed at the expense of our fellow humans, we are no more than selfish animals stealing from the welfare of others. The .org price cap removal is an obvious money grab, affecting mostly non-profit organizations that could not afford a boundless price increase on their domains. Please consider your moral integrity, your social obligations to fellow humans, before make such decisions. Sincerely, Aaron Krohn

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (No Subject)
by Eugene Ramirez April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Please do not raise the prices! Keep them the same.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] please do not allow the random increase of domain name pricing
by chris.owens＠reality-v2.com April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

This jeopardizes the freedom of the Internet please keep domain prices down.

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