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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Domain price hike .org
by James A. Caldwell ✫ April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I hear you want to remove the price cap on .org domains. Considering these domains often (certainly in my case) used for non-profit organizations, that would be seriously messed up. Please don't do this! Thanks for your consideration. James

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Feedback on the .org agreement
by Weil Jimmer 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 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! -- Weil Jimmer , Member Of White Birch Forum Team. https://www.wbftw.org/ Best Regards.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price increase
by Marion Assenmacher April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Do not increase the price for domain names that are often (in this case predominantly) used by individuals or starts-ups with not much money or revenue. Furthermore you should be ashamed of yourselves to try to make more profit for providing a service that does not cause you more work all of a sudden, on the backs of people who probably do put in more work by starting or running a .org business. Marion

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Claire Harbour-Lyell April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am very concerned that with the new laws/agreements in place, the price caps on domain names will be removed, thus giving you the opportunity to charge abusive prices for renewal. Whatever your plans for hte future, I, and millions of others, bought domains on an assumption of a more or less constant price annually. Please do NOT abuse of this. Claire Harbour-Lyell +33 6 0886 6041 People, Talent & Culture Advisor/Coach

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Maintaining .org pricing controls
by Ted Curtin April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Once again, protected availability for space for public discourse is being threatened by ‘free market forces’. Please don’t reduce every avenue for public access to ‘for sale to the highest bidder’. I think that there are plenty of other means for money to be made in the on-line world such that not every entry point has to have every cent squeezed from it. For this reason, I ask that ICANN maintain the price caps/controls on .org domains. Ted Curtin Plymouth, MA

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Objection to proposed lifting of pricing cap on .org websites
by tradartsjournal＠gmail.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern, I write as an academic and Co-Editor of the International Journal of Traditional Arts (www.tradartsjournal.org <http://www.tradartsjournal.org> ). I am writing to request that some exemption (or complete exemption for all '.org' websites) is made for the pricing of charitable and academic and non-profit associations, journals, and organizations. We run a very small, niche academic journal for those people interested in traditional music, crafts, dance and arts. It would simply not be possible to do so if we had any significant costs associated with the domain name ending with .org. I am also the Chair of a UK-based academic subject association-The British Forum for Ethnomusicology-and we are a UK charity recognised in law. Any price increases for us in relation to domain hosting would similarly be deleterious to our mission for the public good. Please consider exempting all '.org' websites, or any organisation or individual whose work online substantively resides in the scholarly, charitable or non-profit sectors. Yours sincerely, Dr Simon McKerrell. (Co-Editor of the International Journal of Traditional Arts) www.tradartsjournal.org <http://www.tradartsjournal.org>

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Deregulation of domain name prices
by Spafford Ackerly April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I oppose! -- Spafford Ackerly 720-310-0235 (mobile) 303-258-0134 (landline) <http://highpeaksmedia.com/> High Peaks Media Websites and Internet Marketing http://highpeaksmedia.com <http://highpeaksmedia.com/>

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please don't
by Patrick April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I'm an individual speaking for a small group of volunteers who came together to offer free services such as webspace, supported and consulting and a platform for exchanging ideas and experiences with all kinds of technical background. The affordability of the .org tld is a great opportunity for many small grass root style organizations without legal body to be able to set up online presences (web, mail, caldav,..) without having to rely on giants like Google or Microsoft. Please consider volunteering groups when discussing possible future price raises for org domains. Greateful greetings from Germany Patrick Gmelch

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] % Increase
by Noah Kuhn April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please don’t allow for uncapped .org registration price increases. Noah Kuhn -- 413.624.6624 noah(a)pilotmade.com

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

April 25, 2019

Rather than a 10% increase to renew your domain next year, PIR could suddenly start charging registrars like 100 times as much. In turn, registrars would have no choice but to pass these charges on to customers. Without any limitation on price increases, PIR would have unfettered ability to extort current domain holders without reprecussion.

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