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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org
by Fr. Chris Salamy April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please don’t remove the price limit on .org domains Russ! It truly helps us. Thank you in advance! Fr. Chris Salamy St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church (602) 953-1921 www.stgeorgeaz.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Johan April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I'm commenting in opposition of the removal of price caps on legacy TLDs such as .org. I work with many small businesses and non-profits that will be negatively affected by an instability in legacy TLD pricing and cannot think of a reason why the removal of price caps would bring a positive change to anyone but registries. Drastic price increases will only hurt small organizations and cause donor money to flow into already swelling administrative costs. --- Johan Samarxhi US Server Net, LLC Cooperative <mailto:jsamarxhi@usservernet.coop> jsamarxhi(a)usservernet.coop

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org Price caps Renewal
by Will Singer April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The fact that the .org TLD was one of the first and already has a large number of organizations using it requires that it be handled differently. If more flexibility in pricing is needed, increasing to 15 would seem a more appropriate reaction than removing all price caps. Also, the proposed removal of the 10% maximum year over year increase would disproportionately impact a high number of non-profit and volunteer organizations. Experiment elsewhere. Will Singer

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org pricing
by Lisa Schnellinger April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, As the president of a small nonprofit organization, I am writing to protest the proposal that would lift the lid on prices for .org domains. As you know, .org is used by organizations rather than businesses. The majority of these are on very tight budgets, and even a small increase can be a hardship. Why would you even consider this change? Who stands to gain from it?? Thank you for your time. Lisa Schnellinger President, Verista Inc.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Don't remove the cap
by Travis Sheppard April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I'm a .org registrant, Any renewal of the .org registry agreement must have a clause restricting fee increases to at most 10% - removing the cap is only justifiable as a cash grab. I hope ICANN will not fall to the pressure of big business and support the public. Sincerely, Travis Sheppard

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] No Limits Equals No Access
by Ed Kidwell April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

ICANN cannot remove the limits on TLD pricing without removing the free-access nature of the internet. If the limits are removed, pricing will undoubtedly skyrocket to the point that only an elite few will have access to domains that used to be accessible by organizations of all sizes. Please stop this change NOW!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please don't remove the cap.
by Mark Williams April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please don't remove the cap for .org domains. That makes it harder on us, the end buyers. Thanks.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Reconsider removing the .org increase price cap
by Mike Lietz April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

As a longtime owner of a .org domain, and volunteer for several non-profit organizations, I understand that expenses add up, and for something as fundamental as one's name and place in cyberspace, there isn't really an alternative to having a .org domain. Removing the increase limit could potentially price many people and organizations out of being able to secure their identity, without taking money away from more necessary needs (ones which have more tangible reasons for mounting increasing costs). Worse yet, I fear that if an organization does let their registration lapse, opportunistic scammers could assume their addresses and spread malware, misinformation, and other harm. Please keep the .org system the way it is. The other TLDs are the place to find more money, not .org. Thank you for your consideration.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Allowing escalating of org domain prices
by Chris Gozdzik April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

That will lead to many many companies and individuals, including myself, to move all of their org domains to a stable .com or .net extensions, even if it takes a lot of work as once you start, you set the precedent and people will abandon you.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please keep the .org price cap
by Mackenzie Morgan April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The .org TLD is used by so many broke little nonprofits and open source projects. If the price controls aren't kept in place, they could be driven off the internet. At least with the 10% cap, budgeting for the next year isn't too thrown off. I, personally, have about 6 .org domain names I use for different aspects of ministry. I can pay $60/yr to keep those online, but if it went up to hundreds of dollars? No way. -- Mackenzie Morgan (she/her)

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