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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Carter, Ronald R April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am opposed to this. As a legacy platform I would like to see continued price caps to stay in place, If they want a newer domain style that is up to them but legacy systems should be protected from price gouging Ronald Carter | Specialist Technician, eduSTAR.TSS |Information Management and Technology Division Department of Education and Training M: 0414 157 221 E: carter.ronald.r(a)edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:carter.ronald.r@edumail.vic.gov.au> W: www.education.vic.gov.au<http://www.education.vic.gov.au> [cid:image001.jpg@01D309FF.2DA14310] IMPORTANT - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please contact us and delete all copies. Before opening or using attachments check them for viruses and defects. Regardless of any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not, resulting directly or indirectly from the use of any attached files our liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. Any representations or opinions expressed are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of the Department of Education and Training.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the price cap
by Elijah Gould April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Part of the brilliance of the Internet is it’s open and accessible to all - those in the know are quite aware of ICANN’s penchant for vacuuming up cash like its going out of fashion, but price hikes like this only serve to line the pockets of ICANN, rather than serving the internet as a whole.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price cap
by Naomi Welsh April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

please continue to enforce a price cap on domain names for nonprofit organizations - our identity is important and most of us do not have the budget to pay large amounts of money to maintain a site name. Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by John Laurence Poole April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Whom are you serving? The public or an industry which hope to make greater profit by being the middleman. Keep letting prices go up and you may find your organization displaced once people become wise enough to understand how little it takes. 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. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants! -- John L. Poole 707-812-1323 jlpoole56(a)gmail.com

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

April 29, 2019

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. Regards Nikhil VJ, India

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Haarm-Pieter Duiker April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am a .org registrant (not-for-profit) for several organizations. 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? Thank you for considering my sentiment, HP Duiker

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .ORG Comment
by ????? ?????? ??????? April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Removing the price ceiling from a domain TLD is like making real estate unaffordable for the masses. The spinoff effect is that non-profit organizations could find themselves at the mercy of thoughtless merchants who want to monopolize the internet. Please make it better for us all and allow the price ceiling to remain in-tact. Thank you.

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

April 29, 2019

I am a .org registrant (not-for-profit). 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 Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Luis Antonio Guerra April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

The current system provides a most needed guarantee that those organizations that seek the “Ex Gratia” betterment of the people and humanity are not threaten by crash commercialism and self interest. If those who are entrusted the power to maintain that balance fail to do so then we are better off establishing a multi agents licensing process for the administration of all the domains instead of a monopoly that “has no competition in the sale of a particular product or service and is able to control its supply and price” even when common sense indicates that we should protect certain activities from the uncertainty of free markets. At least that way we will create competition in this particular marketplace. Luis Antonio Guerra | Director Asociacion Justicia Ex Gratia Lima, Perú.- E-mail: lguerra(a)justiciaexgratia.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message including attachments, if any, is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, use, disclosure or distribution of such confidential information without the written authorization of ASOCIACIÓN JUSTICIA EX GRATIA is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Any breach of the above provisions may entitle EX GRATIA to take legal actions. AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este correo electrónico, incluyendo en su caso, los archivos adjuntos al mismo, pueden contener información de carácter confidencial y/o privilegiada, y se envían a la atención única y exclusivamente de la persona y/o entidad a quien va dirigido. La copia, revisión, uso, revelación y/o distribución de dicha información confidencial sin la autorización por escrito de ASOCIACIÓN JUSTICIA EX GRATIA está prohibida. Si usted no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como cualesquiera copia del mismo. EX GRATIA se reserva el derecho de ejercitar las acciones legales que correspondan.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org - Against removing price increase cap
by Tim Dearborn April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Please do not remove the price increase cap for .org domains. .org domains often are owned by non-profits; why burden them further with increased costs? Are the wholesale domain registries unable to stay in business because they are not making enough money?? (I am the owner of four .org domains. Two are churches. One is a children's camp. One is a non-profit foundation. None have a lot of money to spare on things like domain name registrations.) -Tim Dearborn Chicago, IL, USA

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