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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Removal of Price Caps
by Steve Baker April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I understand that ICANN is considering removing price caps on all .org. ,info, and .biz TLDs and I wish to express my outrage. As a consumer and business owner of several domains that fall under these categories, this could result in huge price increases in the annual cost to me. I beseech you to not remove the caps to the annual price increase or change the amount of the annual price increase currently allowed. Thank you, Steven Baker 615-606-2608

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

April 25, 2019

I am a domain name 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. Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Steve Last 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. Steve Last

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org Renewal Agreement - Prices Should Not Increase
by hi bye April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a self-employed artist and I am against a price increase as proposed in the .org Renewal Agreement proposed by ICANN. According to the Public Comments section of the renewal proposal page on icann.org, a price increase is proposed for .org, .info, and .biz websites. I myself use a .org domain, which I purchased from a domain name service that was recommended from a friend. I use my site as an online portfolio, and a price increase to such .org domains will make it harder for artists, writers, bloggers, and anyone else that wants to start a small nonprofit organization or site, to do so, if the prices increase. It says that prices are not proposed to increase for current domain name holders--but what if I want to start a new site? Will the price increase for my next purchase? The proposal page is worded very opaquely, with language that is difficult to understand, with numerous links to laws, and the price increase is only briefly mentioned 6 or 7 paragraphs down - the most important point that small businesspeople would care about. This particular change should not pass to keep power in the hands of individuals, and to keep it out of larger corporations, or domain name service organizations that might not treat smaller businesses so well (as I have heard, this is the case with GoDaddy). Sincerely, M

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

April 25, 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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org domains cap removal
by Dhruv Gramopadhye April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

.org domains are used by non-profit organizations and other groups. Removal of a price cap can let the .org registry charge more money, and this increase in charge will have an effect on all sorts of groups and societies

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please do not raise price of .org domain renewal
by Hugo Lyppens April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not raise price of .org domain renewal Thanks Hugo

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price caps on .org domains
by Brian Elerding April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am writing to strongly discourage removing the price caps from .org domains. These domains are specifically used largely by nonprofit organizations or service organizations, and these organizations need a domain that people can trust. Most of the world still isn’t comfortable going to any domain other than a .com, .org, .gov, or .(country), and I think it would adversely affect nonprofits’ ability to do their work to make the price of their domains unreliable. Thank you.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by ono 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! Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] The proposed renewal of the .org registry agreement
by Jonathan Pardee April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I appreciate the opportunity to comment as a .org registrant and a director of three not-for-profit organizations. 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? Sincerely, Jonathan H. Pardee Newport, RI, USA

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