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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please don't let prices of domain go up
by Godson Okorodudu April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please prevent the prices of domains from going up. You guys have done a good job for years now, and it makes sense to continue.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please keep price cap provisions.
by Roddy J. Seekins April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal
by Lorna Hawkins April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: 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] Please do not remove price caps
by Benjamin Stassart April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I have been a .org registrant for the last 19 years. Please do not remove the price cap on .org. Registrars are not going out of business with the current pricing and new registrars are entering the market which indicates that current pricing is working fine. The current 10% price increase cap per year seems to adequately account for inflation. If prices increase dramatically that could put a strain on non-profits and other noncommercial organizations. As the ICANN FAQ states, .org was meant for noncommercial purposes. Increasing prices to commercialize .org seems to defeat the original design. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/faqs-84-2012-02-25-en#3 ICANN is supposed to operate for the public benefit and I do not believe that removing price caps is in the public benefit. Sincerely, Benjamin Stassart

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on the proposed renewal of the .org registry agreement
by Mark Wildman April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear Sirs, I respectfully make the following comments. I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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! Regards, Mark Wildman

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Emilio Bueris April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal
by David J. Miller April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: 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] Request to Avoid Possible Price Increases for Org Domains
by Cheryl Brown Merriwether April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To Whom It May Concern: The NET Training Institute is a small non-profit educational institution. Our school provides education and training relating to substance misuse and addiction. Our Mission and Values-based organization seeks to keep our costs and product / service prices low. Our students often struggle to afford the price of our training. Please do not allow the price of domain registry to increase for .org enterprises. This would hurt us significantly and would require us to increase the cost of training along to our students, which would result in many not being able to afford the training. Regards, Cheryl Cheryl Brown Merriwether, MHR, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, CM, CRSS, CPRC Executive Director NET Institute – Center for Addiction and Recovery Education IAPRC – International Association of Professional Recovery Coaches Developer of the Certified Professional Recovery Coach (CPRC) Program P.O. Box 2508 Daytona Beach, Florida 32115 Main: (407) 236-9400 Direct: (407) 446-3740 IAPRC Toll Free: (800) 485-5802 SKYPE: (321) 800-5935 Email: <mailto:cabrown@netinstitute.org> cabrown(a)netinstitute.org Website: <http://www.netinstitute.org/> www.netinstitute.org CPRC: <http://www.recoverycoachtraining.com/> www.recoverycoachtraining.com "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Stephen Grellet

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep Domain price Caps in Place
by Amy Hughart April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Voicing my concern that if ICANN removes price caps on domain names my nonprofit .org and small business .com domains could quickly become unsustainable. Please carefully consider those of us who are not giant corporate monoliths who cannot afford runaway pricing that will occur if caps on pricing are removed. The vibrancy of our digital economy depends on enabling entry and access at all levels, from large entities to tiny. Amy Hughart KeyofSheJazz.org AmyHughartOnline.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Domain Renewal Increase
by Tracey Stepanchuk April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

It’s really unfair to even consider raising domain prices. Canada says it encourages small businesses, but this is not in the spirit of that encouragement. Things are already so difficult for small business owners – ridiculously inadequate EI, limited private health insurance options in the face of provincial cuts, high banking fees – and let’s not mention taxes for EVERYTHING under the sun. Keep domain prices as they are. Please! Tracey Stepanchuk CEO : MediaWorld Global The Content You Need, at a Price You Can Afford Tel: 1.647.628.3396 Email: tracey(a)mediaworldglobal.com Web: http://www.mediaworldglobal.com/

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