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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not increase price of .org domains please.
by Skylar Weaver April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

My nonprofit can barely afford a website as is. We use a .org domain (as do most nonprofits). Increasing the price of .org would lead to price gouging specifically targeted towards nonprofits. Thank you for understanding, Skylar Weaver -- Skylar Weaver Executive Director Adventures for Alopecia projectafa.org *Adventures for Alopecia is an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.*

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the Fee Cap
by Stephen Worden April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Regarding the removal of the price cap for .org domains -- please DON'T. Many (tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands) of non-profit, low-income charities use the TLD. We operate on goodwill -- the generosity of our patrons. It is not a commercial exercise. We're not a dot-biz. Removal of the .org TLD price cap will impact every charity in the US and thousands more across the globe. Please don't do that. You're not helping anyone but PIR. Respectfully submitted, Stef Registrant for radionewark.org, an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) educational broadcast service -- Stephen Worden, General Manager, Radio Newark *WIZU-LP* 99.9 MHz FM Newark, DE Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/radnewark> Twitter @ RadioNewark <http://twitter.com/RadioNewark> And we're on Google+ <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved…> Now Playing on iTunes Radio! http://radionewark.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] please prevent hiking the prices of ORG and other high level domains
by Dror Mikdash April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

It’s bad enough that we – the entrepreneurs - are being held up by domain hogs that take over millions of domain names – “for ransom” – ( ICANN making huge amounts of these domain hogs - in the process. You know I’m right), the domain prices have risen up significantly in recent years. “The internet” should be affordable. It should not be the sole domain of the ultra rich Increasing costs would make it so. You will in essence be making it a rich boys club Hiking domain prices would suffocate deter low-income peoples from inventing and succeeding I hope you will reconsider this approach, and think of ways of reducing domain costs Regards Dror Mikdash (bankDB.org)

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Fees
by Tom Von Lahndorff April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Cut costs. Domain names should be affordable to anyone. Cheers, Tom

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on Proposed Price Cap Elimination
by Thomas Knapp April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I'm a free-market guy. But since ICANN has a monopoly on assigning registrar authority for top-level domains and PIR has a monopoly on .org domains, we're not talking about a free market here. To the extent that these monopolies operate at least theoretically in the "public interest" -- it's even in PIR's name! -- a major justification for ICANN's regulatory function, and for PIR's status as a "non-profit" is protecting the consumer from willy-nilly price increases. ICANN should either keep the price increase cap on .org domains or "de-monopolize" the .org domain by allowing new entrants to compete with PIR (using the same central registry mechanism) so that PIR loses if it jacks up prices enough to make those new entrants viable. Best regards, Thomas L. Knapp Gainesville, Florida, USA

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please keep .org domains free from predatory pricing
by LN April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, .org domains are mostly used for non-profit organizations. Regards LN

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Lifting of .org price caps
by Jonathan Winn April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

This is just what nonprofits don’t need. A sudden sharp increase in our operating expenses. Please don’t lift the caps! Jonathan Winn

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Cosmin Andron April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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! Respectfully, Cosmin Andron

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price increases may be less profitable
by Amr Draz April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

By increasing prices abruptly you will result in stale domain owners to stop paying for their bad domain names that now one would purchase but that they are emotionally attached too and keep subscribing every year for. keep the cap, the internet should be more accessible for everyone.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Org Renewal Cap
by John King April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, As a .org domain owner, I feel very uneasy about removing the price cap increase that PIR can set. The .org domains provide a very important service in many areas - often for organisations that are non-proift and do not have extensive funds. I would encourage you (ICANN) to rethink this policy please. Best, John

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