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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Contracted Price Increase
by Rick Long April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Re: Contracted Price Increase; Do not allow Public Interest Registry (PIR) to charge an unlimited price increase each year to renew domains.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on proposed changes to the .org registry agreement
by Matthew Linares April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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? Matthew Linares

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the new .org agreement
by Tim Garcia 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! Tim

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] STOP
by Diogo Nunes April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

As a customer, I don't want that. No one wants that, except you folks apparently. Please reconsider. -- *Diogo Nunes* *diogonunes.com <http://www.diogonunes.com/>*

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Writing to express opposition to the terms of the proposed renewal of the .org registry agreement
by Clint Everett April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: 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. Clint Everett

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment about a domain for nonprofits
by Corey Kreidler April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] retain the cap on price increases for registering/renewing .org domains
by UMS DIGITAL April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, I'm writing to ask that you retain the cap on price increases for registering/renewing .org domains.?? Removing the limits for price increases would seriously undercut many non-profits that are under-financed and struggling already. The current pricing structure does not prevent increases, it only ensures that they do not exceed a reasonable limit. Thanks!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] I oppose the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal!!
by Adam May April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello! I am a .org registrant. Please consider the affects this will have on many non-profits and other smaller orgs who require the web to get their voices heard. The internet should be accessible to all, not just those who can afford an expensive domain name. 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. -- Adam May agkmay(a)gmail.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org Deserves Price Cap Protection
by Tom Trotter April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The non-profit and charitable organizations that utilize .org domains often operate on very limited budgets. Removing the price cap on the .org TLD could easily price many of them out of the market for supporting the websites they use for outreach, communications, and visibility. Removing the .org price cap serves only the greedy and profiteering, at the expense of those least able to commit additional scarce resources. Respectfully, Tom Trotter

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org domain rate increases
by Fiatt Christian Church April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am writing to voice my objection to .org domain rate increases that exceed a normal level. Many churches use the .org domain. Churches do not use their domain for profit. It may be that some churches would be forced to take down their site if domain rates increase above their capacity to pay. Please consider all users of the .org domain before raising the rates to a cost prohibitive level for many. Thank you

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