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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not remove price caps
by Rahul Iyer April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Hi, Please do not remove price caps on .orgs - if you do so then only the wealthiest of corporations would be able to hold on to their domains. Existing small businesses will lose their customers (effectively destroying their business). They will incur huge marketing costs to inform their customers of their new domain name. It would also be incredibly difficult for a small business to distinguish itself from other domains, since they will no longer have the unique and familiar .org domain. A web domain is an integral part of a companies online identity - by disrupting the status quo, you may gain some revenue in the short term, but will lose most of your users in the long term since people will be forced to switch to alternatives domains. Rahul

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .biz Registry Agreement
by Nick Gilmour April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Removing price caps is not fair to .biz 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. I think you should pay a little more attention to what is good for the owners of .biz domain names. The registries are doing fine. They don't need your help as they are already making plenty of money. ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing price caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants! Kind regards, Nick Gilmour

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .info Registry Agreement
by Nick Gilmour April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Removing price caps is not fair to .info 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. I think you should pay a little more attention to what is good for the owners of .info domain names. The registries are doing fine. They don't need your help as they are already making plenty of money. ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing price caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants! Kind regards, Nick Gilmour

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Nick Gilmour April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

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? 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. ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing price caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants! Kind regards, Nick Gilmour

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org Renewal
by Nathan Wyche April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Hello, As someone who donates to non-profits as regularly as possible, it is obvious that allowing the price of .org renewals to increase at will is unacceptable. If a non-profit must use more and more money to renew their domain then that is more and more resources not going to their cause. Their brand will suffer and what ever ills around the world they are trying to solve will continue. Also they can't just move to another domain as the .org is the stapple of non-profits. It is all part of their brand. Think about it. Would you give money/donations to anything other than a .org? Please don't allow this to happen. The FCC already rolled over for corporate overlords. Please don't let ICANN turn a blind eye and let non-profits get taken advantage of as well. Nate

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Kasey Eckland April 29, 2019

April 29, 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. Thank you! Kasey Eckland | Vice President e. kasey(a)saal.net p. 260.432.7225 x112 f. 260.432.8464 w. saal.net <http://saal.net/> a. 6528 Constitution Dr. | Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Connect with me on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasey-eckland-a8344725/>. SAAL Publishing, Co., Inc., Confidentiality Notice: This electronic transmission and any attached documents or other writings are intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify sender by return e-mail and destroy the communication. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action concerning the contents of this communication or any attachments by anyone other than the named recipient is strictly prohibited.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Youth Sports Collaborative Comments Opposing ICANN .org Proposal
by Rob Smith April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

See Attached PDF. Thank you for considering our comments. Rob Smith MBA, CAE <https://www.asaecenter.org/programs/cae-certification/cae-faqs> Founding Executive Director Youth Sports Collaborative Network www.youthsportscollaborative.org 301-650-2321 LinkedIn Profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/RobSmithNetSmith/>

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Rob Kerry April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am a .org registrant. 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? Regards, Rob Kerry

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] not in our interest
by David P. Murphy April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

For an organization with the name "Public Interest", allowing rich corporations to price normal people completely out of the domain name picture is hypocritical. Leave pricing as it is so that everyone can benefit from the Web. ok dpm

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Khalid April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am a .org registrant. ICANN staff should not unilaterally impose URS in legacyTLDs when that issue is precisely what is being examined by the volunteer ICANNWorking Group who has been mandated to review this issue. ICANN policy makingis supposed to be a ‘bottom up, multi-stakeholder model’. I believe that legacy gTLDs are fundamentally differentfrom for-profit new gTLDs. Legacy TLDs are essentially a public trust, unlikenew 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 newgTLDs, registrants of legacy TLDs registered their names and made their onlinepresence on legacy TLDs on the basis that price caps would continue to exist. Unrestrained price increases on the millions of .orgregistrants who are not-for-profits or non-profits would be unfair to them.Unchecked price increases have the potential to result in hundreds of millionsof dollars being transferred from these organizations to one non-profit, theInternet Society, with .org registrants receiving no benefit in return. ICANNshould not allow one non-profit nearly unlimited access to the funds of othernon-profits. ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries byremoving price caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest andregistrants!

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