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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on proposed changes to the .org registry agreement
by Milo Matrix888 April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org 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] Regarding proposed renewal of dot org registry
by Amrit Varsha April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Sir, The proposed renewal of .org registry agreement will highly impact small domain owners like me. Kindly ensure that prices of .org domains remain stable. Regards Kamal

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Feedback on the .org agreement
by Plitz [Webmaster] April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, 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?

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do Not Approve the .Org Agreement Renewal
by Daniel & Robin Langer April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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. Sent from an Android mobile device.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org
by Brad Cooper April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Changing the prices of .org will make 501 tax free groups pay more while they try to provide for the betterment of our schools, communities, charities, and many other great causes. Please consider not increasing the price of .org. Thank you for your consideration.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on changes of pricing for .org domains
by Rob Schwartz April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, As the former owner of a .org domain, I want to make it clear that the proposed removal of price limits on .org domains will have no positive effects for customers. At best, it will increase the income provided to PIR: but for what end? Is that end more justifiable than the ends pursued by the .org domain owners, many of whom are non-profits? Were the price to increase by any more than the current allowed 10% per year, one of two things must happen for every non-profit: - You would gain more funds from a specific non-profit, up until the point where the damage to reputation/cost of switching web domains for the non-profit becomes equal to the amount you charge for a .org domain. - Or, a specific non-profit would simply switch to a new web domain that does not require exorbitant fees. This will undercut the reputation of the .org businesses: .org TLDs are a marker of reputation and trust. There will also be confusion with regards to the customer base. The proposed removal of price limits on .org domains seems to me to be a cynical use of the relative non-transferability of web domains: ICANN has a captive market of .org domain owners, which makes them relatively easy to exploit. I find this to be a poor choice of action for ICANN, and I would therefore recommend retaining the current 10% annual increase pricing scheme. Sincerely, R. S.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the provisions of the .org agreement
by Dan Finnegan April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a domain name 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! Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 Sincerely, Dan Finnegan

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Removing price caps on .org
by Torsten Kremser April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, Our organizations own many .org domains. Most .org domains represent public benefit organizations and it would be stab in the back to lift pricing limits on those domains. Together we are all working to make our world a better place and ICANN should make a stand for what is right and fair. We therefor strongly disagree with the lifting of price caps and hope all our messages find their way into the hearts of those in charge as they make a decision that’ll impact tens of thousands of public benefit organizations. Thank you all

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed .org price increases
by Jeff Lourie April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

This is an abusive act which will further separate the digital haves from the have-nots. .org is usually nonprofit entities which cannot afford a price increase. Please do not increase the price of .org domains.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] The proposed .org agreement is a bad idea
by Peter 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. Regards,Peter

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