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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] No Price Change
by Brian Douglas April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

ICANN, I can see no reason to lift the price cap on .org, info and biz TLD. This is not a technology that requires continual infrastructure upgrades or other costs that would require such a change. It is especially troubling to me that .org and .info would become pricier domains. BRIAN DOUGLAS INTERACTIVE CONSULTANT BRANDING | TRAINING | DESIGN | DEVELOPMENT P: 718.288.1706 <tel:1-718-288-1706> | BMDINTERACTIVE.COM <http://www.bmdinteractive.com/>

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] The proposed .org agreement is a bad idea
by Ragavendra Y April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. 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.

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

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org 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! In His service, Mark Ebersole Rockbridge Church Cedar Park, TX.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Freeform prices an incredibly bad idea
by Jules Allen April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Don't do this. It's not good for end users and the internet in general. Freeform prices an incredibly bad idea

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] removing domain name price caps
by David Belford April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, I am a very small business owner (I employ only myself) and I’m making just enough to get by. I assume that there are a lot of folks in my situation that would be impacted negatively by the removal of price caps on .org domain names. I am hoping you will reconsider and leave the current price caps in place. Thanks for your consideration. David Belford David Belford, LISW, IMH-E (IV) David Belford LLC personal & professional consultation | individual or group | workshops 505.750.1006 david(a)davidbelford.org www.davidbelford.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please do not remove price caps
by info＠secretsocietymusic.org April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, My name is Darcy James Argue and I am a Grammy-nominated jazz artist. I depend on my website, secretsocietymusic.org, to keep my fans in the loop about our performances and recordings. The proposal to eliminate the price caps on .org domains and let PIR set whatever prices it wants will result in massive increases in my website expenses. PIR has a monopoly on .org domains and should not be allowed to exploit that monopoly by harming individual site owners like myself. I urge you to keep the 10% yearly cap in place. Best, — DJA ----- http://secretsocietymusic.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Don't raise prices for .org
by Ragavendra Y April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Treat .org differently than you do newer tlds. I do not want to pay more for the renewal of my .org domain than I have been. -- Ragavendra Y

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Submitting comments opposed to the proposed .org registry agreement
by Steven Vega April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

You guys are dicks. Straight up. FTC should be looking to break your monopoly. 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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please do not let PIR increase prices above 10% per year!
by eco canuck April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, I am a university professor who owns two domain names. I par for domain name registration from meagre research budgets. Please do not permit PIR to increase domain name renewals above 10%. Thank you, Sean M

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price increases
by Andy Johns April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The unlimited fee increase for .org domains hurts small non-profits which generally have the lease income to afford it. Don’t hurt the little guys. Please don’t allow unlimited price increases. Thank you

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