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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do NOT approve domain price increases on .ORG
by Deborah Goldsmith April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do NOT approve price increases on .org non profit domains! Thank you for your help with Animal Rescue, Deborah Deborah Goldsmith, Executive Director American Animal Rescue Federation www.AmRescue.org <http://www.AmRescue.org> Preferred Contact via Email to Deb(a)AmRescue.org <mailto:Deb@AmRescue.org>

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

April 25, 2019

I am a .org registrant (not-for-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. -- *Gavriel Strauss* Spiritual Counselor & Transformation Coach www.gavrielstrauss.com 519.831.9056

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Possible domain price increases
by DL Hulett April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Greetings, It is my understanding that ICANN is proposing a removal of price caps for .org domains, in addition to others. I am writing to request that serious consideration be given to maintaining price caps. As many non-profit organizations use .org domains, the monetary hardship to these non-profit charities is real. Sadly, the increased fees the non-profits will face to maintain their domains will draw money away from their charitable recipients, thereby increasing their administrative costs. Please reconsider. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter. DLH Block Missouri USA

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Felix Okoh April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

PIR, And those concerned. Hope this email finds you well. The internet world has changed the way we do business in Africa and given Africans a voice in the global market. Please, imagine people like me living in the remote States of Nigeria that would be out of business with your proposed price increase. STOP THE INCREASE AND INCREASE OUR CHANCES IN THE GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT. THANKS. ======================================== Disclaimer Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. APIN Public Health Initiatives accepts no liability for the content of this email, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided, unless that information is subsequently confirmed in writing. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Warning: Although APIN has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the organisation cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachments. message.

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Re: [Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org renewal
by Catherine M. Wilson April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please don’t allow the price cap on .org renewals to expire. Many of us with small orgs and/or new orgs have websites that we would have to pull if the price of our domain skyrockets. Thank you, Catherine _____________________________ Catherine M. Wilson, Ph.D. (Pronouns: she/her/hers) UMass Amherst Sociology, 2017 413-539-0296 "If the history of our present is more accidental than we may like to believe, the future of our present is also more open than it sometimes appears." --Nikolas Rose

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Org Pricing
by Sam Bingner April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The current pricing scheme makes more than enough money to support the .org and other TLD services. Removing the price caps will only make those domain names unusable for more people. Domain names are already getting much too expensive, steps should be taken to address that rather than allowing even more price gouging. Sam

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Senseless price gouging
by s paccie April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

We all know how domain registration works, and how little is needed to maintain a current, functional system. Not to mention your domain name transfer website is old and lame and barely works on a mobile device. Stop making up reasons for increasing rates and just chill on the billions you already make renting ephemera.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price Caps on .org, .info, and .biz names
by Andrew Al Blake April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not remove price caps on .org, .info, and .biz domain names. The Public Interest Registry (PIR) is presumably a "not-for-profit" organization "created by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage the .org top-level domain." This was the charter under which they were created and it should remain that way. In the absence of control and audit, non-profit organizations can turn ugly far more rapidly than enforcement agencies can catch up. While there are numerous examples, please Google "united way william aramony". If the officers that currently run PIR are unsatisfied with the current business model, advise that they are welcome to move on and recruit a new team that a good fit for the charter as it was chartered. Andrew Blake

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

April 25, 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! Thank you for your time.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Pricing changes for domain names
by Annabelle Tuck April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

As the President of a nonprofit organization that operates a website for voter education in judicial election races, I object to the proposed amendment removing the cap on pricing for .org domain names. Nonprofit organizations rely on donations for operating expenses. The ability of small nonprofits to accomplish their missions will be negatively impacted by the increased cost for securing and maintaining .org domain names. In other words, the percentage of donated funds used for administrative expenses will go up. As you know, donors prefer to give to nonprofits that keep administrative costs down, thereby ensuring that a large portion of donated funds actually go towards the stated mission. My suggestion is that the pricing cap be lifted solely for .com domain names, which are used by for profit organizations. This would allow .org domain names, which are used by nonprofit organizations, to remain subject to pricing caps. Please accept my sincere thanks for considering this comment in connection with the proposed changes to the renewal agreement. Best Regards, Annabelle Imber Tuck President Arkansas Judicial Campaign Conduct & Education Committee, Inc. Sent from my iPhone

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