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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do Not Approve the .Org Agreement Renewal
by One To One Yoga April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org 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] Comment on proposed changes to the .org registry agreement
by sue＠geeksmarketing.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. 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. Sue Davis <https://tc1.shztrk.com/e/bLN18pwJJzXynKGJ/w0aQL8Kn32ymkVle/m54oqyPWwZdrA6vj >

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

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. 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] .org renewal cap
by Lloyd Robbins April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do NOT remove the price limit cap on .org registrations. My non profit customers are always struggling for money, and this change would hit directly them in the pocket book. A 10% limit is already very generous for a product that costs the wholesaler almost literally nothing per domain

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the price cap! Keep freedom!
by Jannik Siebert April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please 🙏🏻 Kind regards, Jannik Siebert Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Rate Inrease
by Marti Rieske April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Gentlemen: Please do not increase your rates on the .org domains. Sincerely, Marti Rieske biblelife.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Removal of .org price limits
by steve.croff＠gmail.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I write to oppose the removal of .org price limits. This extension is mainly used by ordinary people like me for family domains, not a commercial enterprise. Unfair rates hikes like this will force people to discontinue or register other domains.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed .ORG price increases
by Christian Science in CT April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I strongly oppose the proposed .org price increases. Not all "organizations" are big ones. We operate a tiny website for a few churches and can not afford price increases. Robert Parsons, Webmaster Christian Science in Connecticut christiansciencect.org [http://christiansciencect.org]

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price caps on .ORG domain names
by Pitts Fred April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To Whom It May Concern: It has come to our attention that the current caps on annual rises in prices for domain names is going to expire and that wholesale registries will be free to charge whatever amount they desire rather than the cap of 10% currently permitted. As you know, the .ORG designation is the the first choice for non-profit organizations, such as the one I lead. Such organization already have to raise funds to fulfill their missions, and removing a cap on domain names would provide a hardship for most of us that does not seem to be warranted. Please keep in place the cap on annual rises for .ORG designations. Thank you for your consideration of this request. Fred Pitts

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] org domain cap increase
by R Portwood April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

hey there, please do not increase .org, info and biz caps because it will force small & medium registrars out of business, which i prefer out of nonresponsive corporate overlords. do not bring Comcast level service to the registrar world. its in your power to act with great responsibility over this matter. thanks, r.portwood -Please forgive typos, sent from a mobile telephone device.

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