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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not remove price cap on .org domains!
by Barbara Schendel - Wizzy Wig Design April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am a web developer with many nonprofit clients. One rule that is always true about all of them is that they have small budgets for things other than programs and keeping the lights on. They don't have extra money to go toward technology overhead like domain names. If you allow the prices to increase, they will all pay more and this will hurt their budgets for programs. Please don't do this! For-profit businesses is one thing, but nonprofits should never be gouged like this. Please keep the price caps in place on .org domains, for the good of all who need the programs that nonprofits provide. Thank you! -barbara schendel- __________________________________________ Barbara Schendel - Wizzy Wig Web Design Minneapolis, MN http://www.WizzyWigWebDesign.com <http://www.wizzywigdesign.com/> barbara(a)WizzyWigDesign.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] lifting price restraints on .org domain names
by Debora Wilson April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please consider who this will effect the most i.e.. churches/non-profit organizations. their purpose is to help and serve communities, usually with limited resources and donations. Internet access is vital to their outreach and productivity to help others. lifting fee limits would inhibit or prevent their ability to lend aid to those in need.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Dont raise the fees.
by Mike Kench April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not lift caps on .org names
by social ink April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, We run a web development company that works with nonprofits, educational institutions and advocacy groups who need good websites. We do not condone lifting caps on the price of .org, this would create an environment where only the richest could purchase domain names and sit on them, making activism and real-life work very difficult. Thank you Social Ink

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Domain Name Price
by bobf April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Domain name prices should be no higher than the actual cost to maintain the names. This is a world-wide, community communication and collaboration system and the basic infrastructure should not be held for ransom.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the provisions of the .org agreement
by William Cobb April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. 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. ᐧ

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] don't lift price caps on .org!
by Emma Clippinger April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

These domains are largely non-profits and this would be one more thing that we cannot afford! -- Emma Clippinger www.gardensforhealth.org grow food. grow health.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on .org registration fees
by Stephen Groves April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

As someone who has worked in communications for several non-profit organizations, I believe removing the cap on .org registration fees will result in unnecessary burdens on non-profit organizations, especially those with smaller budgets. This will divert more money away from programs. I am writing to comment that I do not support the removal of the cap for registration of .org domains. Thank you, Stephen Groves

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price changes
by Richard Soesman April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

For small organizations such as ours whose goal, as a non-profit, is to keep expenses as low as possible to pass on as much to those we serve as possible would be severely hampered if we had to pay much higher fees just to keep our domain name. Please do not let the pricing become unlimited and uncapped. Thank you. Richard Soesman

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal
by Lev Tatz April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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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