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

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

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a domain name 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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Rate Structure
by Bruno April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The idea of allowing an open price structure on .org domains is simply not acceptable. Small organisations in tight budgets simply cannot afford to be put in such a position where prices could escalate as such. Best regards, Mike Bruno ⁣🙊🙉🙈

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

April 25, 2019

I am a .org 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. I strongly believe ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants! Yours Sincerely, Stefanie Kleinhenz

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] don't raise the prices
by Bryan Eydt April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

You will drive the internet into a commerce centric internet and drive out the innovation provided by keeping prices at current levels. Bryan

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Willfully threaten efforts of those endeavoring to change our world for the better?
by Lisa Hallond April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

*Dot org is one of the most widely used and recognized TLDs. It is used most commonly by not for profit organizations and in that way is special. If price caps are removed, registration and renewal of these domains will become uneconomical, forcing many important organizations to change their addresses and threatening the prominence of .org. Unlike newer TLDs, dot org is already very established. Allowing PIR, the registry operator, to act monopolistically with such a prominent TLD goes against what the Web should be. Insodoing, PIR would willfully threaten efforts of those endeavoring to change our world for the better. *

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Icann changes to Public Interest Registry fee charging powers.
by John April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Although I do not use Domains ending .org, I am aware that many charitable institutes and associations with little or no spare funds use these TLD's. In my opinion to convert what has been a reasonable cost service provision into the sort of 'wild west' which would be caused by allowing Public Interest Registry (PIR), to ramp up charges without restraint is a shocking betrayal of those domain owners who rely on such fees remaining affordable. Such an action will be a deplorable disservice to millions of small business owners and institutions who would be the ones picking up the bill, and?? worse yet, a bill they would suddenly have no idea as to where future costs might rise to. This a potential decision I am frankly shocked that an organisation such as ICANN would even?? consider as being in any way fair to the billions of domain owners. Sincerely, John Smith. 34 Great Grove. Gloucester UK

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposition to .ORG Registry Agreement
by gelliott＠freedomnet.net April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am opposed to the proposed change in the .org registry agreement. I feel removing the price cap on this or any TLD is a bad move. We have seen time and again, in various industries, where this has only resulted in out of control pricing and a burden on the end user.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price cap removal
by Cookstown & Dungannon War Dead April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Form Post from Firefox
by Adam S April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I feel the removal of the price cap in section 2.10 will be detrimental to the .org domains, and pretty much have the opposite. I can see wholesalers gouging existing domain holders who have established a presence on those domains with corresponding services being penalised greatly.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Domain price increases
by james＠kopifarm.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not increase prices on these domains, I am a small business and personal enterprise and such increases will damage my wellbeing and ability to run my operations. Sent from my iPhone

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