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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please keep price cap
by Jonathan van Alteren April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please keep the price (increase) cap on all .org top level domains.Kind regards, Jonathan van Alteren Amsterdam The Netherlands

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on the proposed renewal of the .org registry agreement
by ryan jackson April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org 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?

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] The .org TLD should keep a low, restricted price
by Griffin Johnston April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

While the proposal to deregulated the prices of .biz and .info shouldn't have a great impact, .org holds an elevated position along with .com as a highly trusted TLD, crucial for non-profits and social enterprises. PIR will be able to get away with charging extremely high prices for .org domains, which will impact organizations with constrained budgets. This is a bad idea! Thanks for listening, Rufus Johnston

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on the proposed renewal of the .org registry agreement
by Olivier David April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a domain name 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!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on proposed changes to the .org registry agreement
by Mark AtQuorumVideoConferencing April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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. mark hannon mark(a)quorumvc.com Need to Meet? Get a free meeting room trial. <http://goog_1906400346> <http://QuorumVC.com> *Quorum Video Conferencing * Always-On Meeting Rooms, Managed Meetings, Video rooms, 100-way (Yes, "100") Calling, Streaming, Recording, Video on Demand, Webinars, Events, Webcasting, BYOD 1-800-884-9626 @QuorumVC http://QuorumVC.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Cap on .org price increases
by Caoimhin O Donnaile April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The 10% cap on .org domain price increases should certainly remain. To allow what is in effect a public monopoly with no competition to increase its prices without constraint is simply unacceptable. The domain owners chose their domains in good faith, expecting prices to remain stable, and are unable to move to a different top-level-comain without huge disruption to their businesses. Allowing unconstrained price increases would amount to extortion. Caoimhín P. Ó Donnaíle (owner of several .org domains)

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] ICANN PIR Contract
by Todd Wolven April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I fail to see how a 10% discount is worth increasing prices on other domains. This proposal deal to remove price caps on .org, .info, and .biz is a terrible idea and should not be supported. -- Todd Wolven CEO/Co-Owner <https://www.facebook.com/NeoTitanIndustries/> *Tel:* 757-349-6342 <tel:757-349-6342> *Mob:* 208-874-7514 <tel:208-874-7514> *Email:* twolven(a)ntillc.tk <mailto:twolven@ntillc.tk> NeoTitan Industries LLC This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the intended recipients. If you are not an intended recipient you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify us immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore we do not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on proposed changes to the .org registry agreement
by Robb Irrgang April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. I am a .org 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. Regards, Robb Irrgang

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Amy Cudmore April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I’m against the increase rates for (.org) as the websites I own are all non-profit. James Cudmore Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] increase on .org domains
by Kathy Papalia April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I urge you to consider keeping prices for .org domain names low. The domain is commonly used by schools, open-source projects, and communities, but also by some non-profit entities most of which are having a hard enough time meeting costs. Kathy Papalia Diocese of Erie, Network Administrator 429 East Grandview Blvd., Erie, PA 16504 Office: 814-824-1184 || Mobile: 814-460-6249 it(a)eriercd.org<mailto:it@eriercd.org> || www.eriercd.org<http://www.eriercd.org/> St. Mark Catholic Staff ONLY: In a technology-related emergency, please contact Jim Bogniak. If Jim is unavailable, contact our Network Consultants at Networking Technologies 814-836-0000. (Parish staff, please do NOT call Networking Technologies.) Parish Staff ONLY: If your emergency is PDS related, contact PDS 1-877-737-4457.

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