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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Org renewal
by mclear＠fastmail.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please maintain the terms of the current org agreement. Those of us who don’t run for profit web sites can’t afford price increases!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Protect the small organizations
by Daniel Scearce April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please keep domain renewal available for all organizations; DON'T remove the price cap that protects us! Respectfully, Daniel C Scearce

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

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do Not Approve the .Org Agreement Renewal
by info＠fleurdelysee.ca April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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] Opposed to the new .org agreement
by Mike O'Donovan April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. I am a domain name 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] .org renewal comments
by Mitch Claborn April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am strongly opposed to the removal of the price cap for the .org domain. Doing so serves no useful purpose and will be a detriment to many organizations and businesses. -- Mitch Claborn Director of IT Murray McMurray Hatchery 515.832.1235 x210 mitch(a)mmhatch.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not remove price cap for .org!
by Chris Flusche April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

As an I.T. provider that specializes in I.T. support for non-profit organizations such as soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and the like, we find that many of our clients use domain names with the .org TLD. These clients all operate on very small annual budgets, and only receive their funds through donations from community members. If the price of .org domain registration were to increase substantially, many of our clients would have no choice but to change their domain names, which in itself would be a costly proposition. Either way they would lose money that would be much better spent helping the communities and people that they serve. You simply must not allow the price cap to be removed from the .org TLD! Thank you, Chris Flusche Founder & CEO [https://ucarecdn.com/0e685b0b-c3f0-437c-ba60-36a929432f8a/-/resize/300x100/…] Phone: 940-239-6500 x 101 Email: chrisf(a)texasitpros.com <mailto:chrisf@texasitpros.com> Web: www.texasitpros.com <https://www.texasitpros.com/> [facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/texasitpros/> [linkedin]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/texasitpros/> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom this email is addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. The contents of this message may not be modified for any reason. All content herein is protected by copyright law and may not be forwarded, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published, or broadcast without the prior written permission of the sender. This disclaimer may not be removed from this message.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Don't raise the barrier of entry
by Nathan Hadsall April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The internet has been a great equalizer for the world. Anyone in any place can create a business, service, or have a platform to speak. Allowing massive price increases as a possibility could stop all that by raising the barrier of entry. The internet could become pay to play, which would impact developing countries the most. *Nathan Hadsall*

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org rates
by Bob Cook April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not allow .org rates to be increased - particularly by an unlimited amount... // Bob Cook

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

April 25, 2019

The power of the internet is in its wide availability and low barrier for authors/makers to launch and publish. The idea of increasing prices for these domains is bad. The idea of removing price caps totally allowing for significant multiplier price increases is really, really shady.

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