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

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

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. 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!

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

April 25, 2019

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 registrant

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] org domain costs
by Cliff Brake April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, many .org domains are run by non-profits, or OSS projects. Any significant price increase will hinder many of these projects. Cliff

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] NOPE
by Lucien Sabre April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello. I just wanna ask you a question: have you realized how many people will not be able to renew their domains if you remove the price cap, and consequently how much money are you gonna lose? Thank you for listening; have a great day. LUCIEN SABRE

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] ICANN .ORG Proposal a Bad Idea
by Dana Dodge April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

By removing price cap provisions for the .org domain, you open up a space for huge price inflation which will in turn could cause businesses to stop renewing and/or even change domain extensions, which will cause confusion to the business' customers. There is potential for a trickle down effect from leaving the market uncapped. Please do not include this rule. -- Dana Dodge Dodge Designs LLC Software & Networking Solutions

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Removal of the price increase cap is ridiculous.
by Matt Mossholder April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

It is really as simple as that. Given the typical use case for .org domains, allowing unlimited pricing increases is not a realistic or productive. --Matt Mossholder

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Cap removal
by Ted Lilley April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not remove the rate increase cap on domain names. Ted Lilley Web Professional

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not unrestricted domain fees
by James Cochran April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please leave the cost of fees capped so prices don't get out of control for personal domain owners like myself. This could be a detriment to little guys like me. James Jamescochran.org

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

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. 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] Public Interest Registry
by Tim Gerber April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please so not allow PIR to set whatever prices it wishes. The pricing cap is working fine. The reason everyone is purchasing online is because the competition brings prices down for everyone. By increasing pricing, even on a domain, you add to the price that individuals, non-profits, and small organizations are charged, and that makes them less competitive against the big guys who already have the value of economies of scale. It is a matter of simple economics. Competition is better. Is PIR had significant competition to hold them in check, price caps wouldn't be necessary. But that isn't the case. Tim Gerber, General Manager Flavor Burst Company 499 Commerce Dr. Danville, IN 46122 (317) 745-2952 x102

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