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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] possible .org pricing changes
by Spinney April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am the volunteer webmaster for quite a few non-profit organizations working in the areas of social justice and environmental sustainability. I volunteer my time because they simply lack the funds to pay me. Given the current trend, particularly in the U. S.. of concentrating wealth in the hands of the few, fundraising is increasingly challenging. Many fine organizations struggle to stay afloat, and their web presence is key to their very survival. Increasing their cost of maintaining that web presence would mean that, at the very least, they would have less money available to do their valuable work, such as raising public awareness about many critical issues, protecting species from extinction, cleaning up pollution, and helping to feed the hungry. Rather than price increases, please consider *reducing* the price of .org domains.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org stability.
by Tom Rothamel April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

According to https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article1, "The mission of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") is to ensure the stable and secure operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems". Allowing arbitrary increases to the renewal pricing of .org domain names hurts this mission. Large increases (the only kind that could not be covered by limits) mean that some share of the .org domain names would become to expensive to be renewed. This will have a carry-on effect - the information present at the domains will vanish. Software that has been hard-coded to use those urls will stop working. And in general, the stability of the internet and the resources it depends on will diminish. For what reason? It's hard to claim that predictable pricing for .org domain names is a problem that needs to be fixed. Instead, the price protection that has been part of a .org domain is something that should be extended to other gTLDs. To do otherwise would be to run the risk of unconstrained cost increases threatening the stability of the identifier systems ICANN runs.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Domain Prices
by Devesh Beeharry April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, I'd really like if domain prices stay the same. Thank you

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Regarding the pricing of .org domains
by Dash M. Buck April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern, I am a website developer with many nonprofit clients that make use of the .org domain. Most nonprofit organizations can only afford their online presence due to nonprofit discounts given by myself and their hosts. Suddenly inflating the price of .org domains will cause incredible distress to my clients, who are consistently working with strapped budgets. If the yearly price of their domain expands enough, some of my smaller clients will have to shut down. This means that the groups that they serve will not receive the aid they had been promised. In short: inflating .org domain prices hurts small nonprofits and the groups they serve. Please don't do this. Thank you. Dash Buck Websites and Education https://dashbuck.com <http://emdashbuck.com> They/them personal pronouns. Learn more. <http://emdashbuck.com/pronouns/>

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] please dont let PIR set whatever prices it wants
by Girts Niedra April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

hello - please dont let PIR set whatever prices it wants Public Interest Registry (PIR) -- Regards, Girts +32 493073236 +371 29169608

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Feedback on the .org agreement
by Adolf Denk April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. 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! Best regards Denk Adolf Gesendet von Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> für Windows 10

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please don't do this.
by Daniel Derasmo April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

This isn't justifiable at all, and it's incredibly unfair to anyone relying on these domain names. Don't contribute to the downward spiral of the corporate-controlled internet. Stand up for something!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price Caps Help Nonprofits
by Scott Duncombe April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, I’ve built sites for many nonprofits as a freelance web developer. Cost is always a huge concern for these organizations as they’re trying to get the most out of slim budgets to do right in the world. Cheaper .org domains keep more of their money going towards programs and less towards domains. Thanks, - Scott -- Scott Riker Duncombe 541.760.9342 <tel:541.760.9342>

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] price cap
by David Borden April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Allowing a monopoly by contract vendor to charge anything it wants is textbook economic lunacy. If it's true that's in the renewal proposal, PLEASE send it back to the drawing board. It's an entirely inappropriate economic framework. - David Borden, domain registrant

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] The proposed .org agreement will hurt public institutions
by Elaine Simon April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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. *Elaine Simon* Director of DevOps Hawaii Technology Academy Cell: (808) 398-3923 [image: Twitter Icon.jpg] <https://twitter.com/HTAcharter> [image: Insta Icon.jpg] <https://www.instagram.com/htacharter/> [image: FB Icon.jpg] <https://www.facebook.com/hawaiitechnologyacademyHTA> [image: YouTube Icon.jpg] <https://www.youtube.com/c/HawaiiTechnologyAcademyHTA> [image: Google+.png] <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112079144582928703127/+MyhtaOrg> myhta.org <https://hi.myhta.org/> -- *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This email message may contain information which may be privileged, confidential and/or protected from disclosure. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you think you have received this message in error, please email the sender then delete the email from your computer system and destroy any hard copies of the email. If you are not the intended recipient any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited.*

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