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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Limit Wholesale Price Increases
by Jordan Freund April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not allow limitless price increases for .org, .info, and .biz -- especially .org, since a lot of non-profits use this. As capitalism has proven, if you do this, consumers will just choose different domains that are in their best interest financially and you will end up selling less in the end. Jordan Freund Kala Brand Music Co. <https://kalabrand.com/> (707) 559-2845

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Isaque Fernandes April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am a .org 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? Thank you Isaque Fernandes sp1ke77(a)gmail.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] I'm against your new policy to raise up the prices
by Ulises Vázquez Cruz April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I dont find any justification to your price increases in the same service and the same product we are buying now. Please dont do this change.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] price increase for domain names
by James C. Miller April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not allow unlimited price increases for domain registration. Drastic price increases will turn the internet into a forum ONLY for wealthy people - and we have far too much of that already in other parts of our society. Thanks, Jim Jim Miller Patent & TM Librarian Learning Lab Rm 2403E STEM Library, Kirwan Hall University of Maryland College Park MD 20742-7011 301-405-9152 (msg also goes to email) jmiller2(a)umd.edu (pronouns: he, him, his) P.S., these comments are strictly my own opinions, and do not necessarily reflect those of University of Maryland, or of ptrca.org , the group in which I serve as treasurer.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by fredoffrance＠gmail.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 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. Frederic COLLIN Envoyé de mon iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against the Removal of Limit Increase of .org domains
by merissakelley＠infraredcamerasinc.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by fredoffrance＠gmail.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 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? Frederic COLLIN 0641699629

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comments on Potential Removal of Price Caps on .org TLD domain names
by Harvey Smith April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

My name is Harvey Smith, and I am an administrator for various web properties with a .org TLD. I am writing to express my deep disapproval with ICANN’s proposal to remove the wholesale pricing caps on the .org TLD. Although there may be many resellers of domain names ending in .org, the fact that there is one organization that effectively acts as the sole source of supply of these domains results in enormous pressure to wield that power in abusive ways. Fortunately this has not been the case due to contractual obligations ICANN has with Public Interest Registry, the manager of the .org domain space. But without this contractual protection, there is no effective protection from rampant pricing inflation. In fact, the cost to provide digital services should DECREASE over time, due to the great increases in productivity of modern electronic systems and a robust economy providing ever more customers of .org domains. I greatly encourage you to maintain a contractual cap on the wholesale prices of .org domains for the next contract extension. Sincerely yours, Harvey Smith

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Objection to removal of price cap on renewal of .org domains
by Dejan Milinović April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I strongly object to enabling a single organization to arbitrarily set prices of renewal of products/services which only that organization provides. Without any sort of competition, the organization is given monopoly, which no market should experience and no governing body should endorse. Cheers, Dejan

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price proposals for .org domain names
by Robert Ross April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

*Unrestrained price increases on the millions of .org registrants who are not-for-profits or non-profits?* Can you see what you are proposing? Robert Ross Piedwagtail.org

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