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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Bob Miller 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.

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

April 25, 2019

I am a .org 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! Mihai Tarce

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Objection to the removal of price caps of more than 10% annually for .org renewal agreement
by Bill Zybach April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

We are very troubled by the what appears to be ICANN Staff's complete disregard for registrants and the public interest when it comes to the removal of all price caps in the Proposed .org Renewal Agreement. Thanks for allowing me to provide input. Bill Zybach 1383 Belmont Drive Lancaster Virginia 22503

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] It is imperative that .org domains not increase in price
by Gagan Khurana April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear Sir/Madam, Most of the organizations using .org domain names work in social impact or non-profit sectors. Your proposal to remove price caps on these domain names would adversely affect such organizations which may not have sufficient resources to be able to pay the new prices after the cap is removed. We ask that your organization seriously reconsider the proposal to remove price caps on .org domain names. Kind regards Gagan Khurana Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] pricing
by Todd Warren April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do NOT support letting PIR set whatever prices it wants

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

April 25, 2019

I am a .org registrant (non-profit). 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 Cheryl Jones April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am a .org 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! Please stand up against removing price caps! Please honor traditional .org sites! Thank you. Cheryl Jones

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Org's are so important, dont let fees rise too much!
by Kirk Is April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

registration fees need to be kept at low levels, for the functioning of many worthy organization's + charity's domain!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] About domain prices
by Hyip History April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi there, plz don't act like a dictator, don't increase the price of domains. --

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

April 25, 2019

To Whom it May Concern, I currently own over 100 domain names, and about 10% of those are .ORG names. I don't have any .ORG names that make me any money. For the most part they are informational sites I pay for out of my own pocket. This information will likely be dropped along with ALL .ORG domains if there is a significant price increase. I'm pretty sure my .ORG sites cost me WAY more than cost you to provide lookups for them. Perhaps you think organizations make a lot of money? Guess again. I can assure you that if a price hike goes in to effect, I will drop all of my money losing .ORG sites, along with any other TLD's that see a price hike but don't make money. That would be about 90% of my domain names. I'm sure I'm not the only web developer who will cut his losses and let his .ORG domains die. Millions of them perhaps. Would that hurt your bottom line? Jim Hall JADE Computer Services (330) 332-7984

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