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

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

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: 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! Kind regards *Md. Osman Goni*

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Mike & Leann Flanagan April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Monopoly is an abomination to capitalism. Please, allow sensible limitations upon the price increases that may be charged to organizations whose web presence might become tenuous, should excessive price increases become permissible. Mike Flanagan

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] ogr price increaes
by J Mancini April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Do not raise the org price. it is already expensive enough. Thanks

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] DO NOT RAISE PRICES
by Fareed Melies April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

DO NOT RAISE PRICES *Fareed Melies* *Georgia Institute of Technology* Atlanta, GA *www.linkedin.com/in/fareed-melies <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fareed-melies>*

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org domain price increase
by Tariq Jassim April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

do not increase the price of the .org domain (or allow PIR to do so unrestricted). It would ruin the culture around this extension and just move people to other extensions. It would provide them a monopoly and so there would be nothing to keep the price in check. Please listen.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Bait and Switch
by George Paley April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

So, the public is led to adopt the .org TLD for non-profit, public-benefit entities, an agreement is in place that secures possible price increases that more than cover sustainability, the TLD becomes mission-critical for millions of people that are now captive, and you ICANN, an entity that is supposed to work for the benefit of all, unleash the greed of rent-seekers on those that trusted your previous commitments? JD Paley

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Why remove protections on existing domains?
by Jonas Goslow April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I'm writing to strongly oppose the removal of caps on existing domain extensions, in particular .org. Not only will these changes hurt organizations with little to no budget, it will injure the ability of new organizations to establish a web presence easily and cheaply. What reason besides greed is there to remove these restrictions? We know it costs next to nothing to operate these domains, and when managed en-masse it's even cheaper. By removing these protections you create a winner-take-all dynamic with web domains, as those who currently hold these contracts will have an inherent monopoly over the outcomes. This sort of change erodes public trust in organizations and oversight institutions created to foster new technologies, protect the accessibility of the web, and steward web technologies into the future. Please don't sell your reputation, stand up for consumers. - Jonas Goslow

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .ORG Price Cap Removal
by Stefan Heinz April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi - I own a number of domains and several of them are .org domains. .ORG originally was meant to be used for non-profits (which I use them for). If prices increase significantly, we would have no choice other than getting new domains from another TLD - which would be counter productive to the price increase. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot. Thx Stefan Heinz

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal
by Mike Wood April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a domain name 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? Mike Wood Cheapo's Depot 500 W 49th St Hialeah, FL 33012

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not remove price cap
by Martin Auer April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I strongly *oppose* removing price caps on .org top level domains. Affordable TLDs are the basis for a democratic Internet. -- Martin Auer Rotenmühlgasse 44 1120 Wien +43 664 33 52 696 blog.martinauer.net www.martinauer.net

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