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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price caps removals
by Ville Valkonen April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

This is just silly. ICANN should be the instance not craving for money. If this happens, you have failed. Badly. -- Kinds regards, Ville Valkonen

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

April 25, 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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please do not remove .Org name fee caps
by Darren Larson April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not remove the .Org name registration fee caps. Many volunteer and charitable institutions use these, as well as hobbyists who aren't "making money" on Internet commerce. There is no reason why the .Org registrars should have carte blanche for fees. Please also read this article: https://www.circleid.com/posts/20190423_spurious_justifications_for_elimina…

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement (20190425)
by Victor Perez April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I work with several .org clients who are truly non-profit. I understand that the following is a canned response generated to help write an email, but I agree with all of the below: 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. *Regards,* *Victor Perez* PereLX, Inc. https://www.PereLX.com <http://www.PereLX.com>

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

April 25, 2019

.org gTLDs are used mainly by non-profit organizations that are funded by donations. The proposed price increase will have negative impact on the beautiful things that non-profit organizations do for the world.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .orgs
by Stuart Overbey April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN As a nonprofit yourself, I'm sure you understand the importance to all nonprofits of keeping costs under control. The .org top level domain is universally understood to mean that a URL belongs to a nonprofit. Please do not remove the caps on pricing for .orgs, as it will harm all the organizations relying on the internet to help them make the world a better place. I'm on the board of a nonprofit and have several as clients. I know that they all would be severely and negatively impacted by suddenly having to pay no-limit prices to maintain a presence on the internet. Thanks. Stuart Overbey 434.960.3773

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not allow unlimited price caps
by Joshua Chavanne April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

-- Joshua Chavanne

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

April 25, 2019

We are a .org registrant. We use the .org TLD to distribute free open-source software. 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! Regards… Bill Hollings The Brenwill Workshop Ltd.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org renewal
by Somtochukwu Nwagbata April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, I'm writing to ICANN to please reconsider the price cap renewal policy on .org domains. The .org domain used by many non-profit organizations to establish their legitimacy on the internet. Removing the price caps on the .org domain would not only increase my organization's operating cost, but would also decrease the amount that go towards the cause of my organization. Please don't remove the price caps. Sincerely, Somtochukwu Nwagbata Technical Manager Hold a Hand Project

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by The Evangel Ministers April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

No to increase in .org domain by ICAAN. We don't support this development.

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