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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price Cap Removal
by Gregg A. Karas April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

NO - To price cap removal and costing business more money / Jobs !

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price caps on .org should not be tampered with
by Tarik Wareh April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The .org domains are an important part of the internet, typically enriching the net with non-commercial community organizations, etc. It would be a serious mistake to expose these domains to the instability of unregulated price increases. Please preserve the current price caps. Best regards, Tarik Wareh Niskayuna, N.Y. Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Nee agreement
by Roy Smith April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Why is ICANN proposing to remove the regulatory limit on .org domain registrations? .org domains were specifically designated to allow public, social, community et al groups to have an affordable voice in the cyber community- not for private profiteering. PLEASE REMOVE THIS DEREGULATION FROM YOUR AGENDA and support the concept of an all inclusive internet rather than an exclusive internet reserved only for money-making enterprises. I find these proposed changes to be thoroughly disgusting Roy Smith Australia Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the new .org agreement
by Gabriel H. Nunes April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. I am a .org registrant. 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? [Gabriel Henrique Nunes](https://nunesgh.com) [Lattes](https://nunesgh.com/lattes) | [Scholar](https://nunesgh.com/scholar) | [ORCiD](https://nunesgh.com/orcid) Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the end user's cost reasonable
by sheppmartha＠gmail.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

With the 10% cap removal and potential for any sort of increase, I urge you to keep common sense and service as your priority. Please keep domain name registry affordable and of service to the idea that anyone can have an internet presence, regardless of their level of income. Thank you. Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Condemnation of Increasing prices of .org/.info/.biz
by Zubair Latif April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, Respected Sir, It's heart wrenching for me as a domain owner that ICANN plans to increase domain prices, internet is place that should be free for everyone.Increasing domain prices would discourage domainowners like me whose livelihood is solely dependent upon website earning that'salso not much higher. I strongly condemn domain price inflation and considers it 'an attack' on freedom of expression. Domains should be cheaper so that everyone can easily afford it. Increasing its prices is never justifiable. Regards-sd-(Zubair Latif)Domain OwnerTheVeterinarySite.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by laura folco 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. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants! Also fire the ICANN people who advocated for this... they do not represent registrants!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Submitting comments opposed to the proposed .org registry agreement
by wp12217255-6 wp12217255-6 April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: 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] Submitting comments opposed to the proposed .org registry agreement
by GI Workshop April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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. They should not take advantages from non-profit organisations who aim to help the community, not making profit. We cannot afford and not responsible to community and donors to spend that much of money on domain. Gladys Chu

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the cap
by Jonathan Fielding April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I agree with what other nonprofits are saying on here. Please don’t raise the prices. The more expensive it is to have a website the harder it is for us offer the services and jobs we do. Transferred via my robot assistant.

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