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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Collin Williams April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am 100% wholly opposed to allowing an increase in the .Org TLD . Let no words be mixed or meaning be lost. Do not allow the price to be raised!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep Domain prices low!
by Norman Edwards April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against PRICE increase plan for .org domains
by Kathryn Trucano April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I currently volunteer for two separate non-profit organizations who survive on donations. They amount of money they receive each year is relatively low compared to for-profit organizations. Any price increases does effect non-profits from using the donations for the services they wish to provide to their members. I am asking that you DO NOT allow the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to set whatever prices it wants for the .org domain. Sincerely, Kathryn Trucano

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the price cap!
by Marcel Cruz April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Sean Summerville April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

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. -Sean

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please do not raise .org fees
by Bill Solewa April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I run a personal web site under .org which does not raise money - it is not for commercial. I cannot afford to pay more for it than I already do. Please never allow fees to increase! Thank you.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Submission on proposed renewal of .org registry agreement
by Nate Cull April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

To whom it may concern: I am writing to express my concern about the proposed changes to the global .org registry agreement to be made after June 2019, as described on the ICANN website at https://www.icann.org/public-comments/org-renewal-2019-03-18-en Specifically, I am very concerned about the proposed change to the Pricing for Domain Name Registrations and Registry Services (Section 2.10). This proposed change would remove the existing price cap on .org registrations. I oppose this change. Removing the price cap will lead to immediate and potentially large price rises rises for critical domain infrastructure which will have an extremely negative impact for charities, community groups and non-governmental organisations. I personally manage toplevel .org domains for myself, and for a local church in New Zealand. My brother who has been working in international disaster relief and community development also manages several toplevel .org domains. I have witnessed firsthand how many community and aid groups get by on shoestring budgets, and web sites are an essential requirement for such groups. Any rise in the cost for domain registrations will have a huge damaging effect for these groups. There has been a trend in the last ten years for community groups and nonprofits to increasingly use Facebook and other large, centralised, proprietary social networks. We are now starting to see the very great danger of this trend. I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, where on March 15, 2019, a white supremacist terrorist attack was conducted against Islamic people at prayer and Facebook was used as the mechanism for distributing a live stream of this attack. As a result of this attack, and Facebook's completely inadequate safety protocols, the community sector in New Zealand is now much more aware of the dangers of relying on centralised, proprietary social media services, and much more interested in using their own website domains again. One reason why individual organisations managing their own domain name is essential, is that it is the only reliable way to solve the problem of 'fake news'. Only information published on an organisation's own website can be seen as authoritative. The Internet and the World Wide Web, and the Domain Name Service on which they rely, were born from this vision of decentralised servers where every organisation has the right to manage their own server. Despite the move to centralisation and corporate ownership over the last decade, decentralised domain ownership remains key to the open nature of the Web. But ICANN is proposing to deny nonprofit groups this right, and to make .org domains less accessible for small community groups at the very time when the world has become aware of how dangerous centralised, proprietary data services are. ICANN is in great danger of positioning itself on the wrong side of history with this move. Please do not make this change. Please do not throw the nonprofit and community sector away. Please do not make .org domains less accessible at the very time in history when we are all becoming aware of how important it is to have control of our own servers and our own domain names. Regards, Nate Cull

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Prashanth C A April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

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] Limit increase to 10%
by Christine Esposito April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

To whom it may concern: Please retain the allowable 10% per year increase in wholesale price of .org domains. Please do not let Public Interest Registry (PIR) set whatever price it wants upon extension of its contract, which could mean exorbitant price increases. My understanding is that registrars would need to recupe their increased expenses by spreading them across various domain types. As a small business owner, I cannot afford such increases, which would mean losing my websites. Without them, I am severely hampered in my ability to gain new customers and sustain my business. Very concerned about the widespread negative impact of such a change, Christine Esposito

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Slade Michalec April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

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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