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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep Registration Costs Stable
by Modern Voracity April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

As the owner/operator of a website design company I represent the voices of 32 organizations that would be affected by the removal of price protections for TLDs like .org. Many of the organizations that I work with have limited resources to operate, and an uncontrolled increase in the costs of registration could force many organizations to abandon their own website presence and restrict them to moving to a closed platform like Facebook. As you might be able to imagine, this would negatively affect the thousands of community members who rely on the information and services provided through dedicated websites. If you adopt the URS policy of unrestricted price increases you are making a statement that only wealthy organizations should be allowed to own a .org website. You would be disproportionally hurting little organizations that struggle to stay afloat in order to help the members of their community. Please keep .org (and all legacy TLD) prices under control. Sincerely, Remington Phillips, Owner Modern Voracity LLC

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Time For Term Limits April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

I am a .org registrant. I purchased this domain for a noncommercial website to interactively share information on environmental and social issues in lieu of using Facebook. 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! Barbara Hichens

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .ORG price increase
by james April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please do not lift price caps on .org domains
by Cole Lawrence April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

It is well known that changing domains is both technically expensive and harmful to am entity's presence online. Going from .org to .net comes with huge losses to the consistency of data across web services, (forums linking to nonprofit.org websites now may get redirected to something else if the non profit loses ownership of the domain due to cost.) This makes this situation a monopoly, which will be given the opportunity to take advantage of organizations who do not have a webmaster on staff. It's not about "freedom" of choice, it's about ensuring stability of costs for organizations.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Wesley Baker April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

what the hell is wrong with you people corrupt sons of bitches

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price Cap .org
by Michelle - AuroraWebsites.net April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

NO to removing Price Caps. Lots of non-profits use .org. These organizations spend lots of years teaching users to go a .org domain name, now you are proposing for them to have to reteach users to go somewhere else? Just say No. Opens a big door for hackers that use domain jumping also as people move off newly expensive .org domains. Thanks Michelle -- *Michelle Myers* *AuroraWebsites.net* <http://www.AuroraWebsites.net> Web Site Design and Services Michelle Myers on behalf of AuroraEquine, LLC as its Manager Michelle(a)AuroraWebsites.net

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Jeff Aikman April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

I am a domain name 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? Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Christian Korneck April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

hi there, I strongly believe: ".org" domains are and should be special - they have been around from the beginning. There has always been a saparation between ".com" for commercial purpose and ".org" for all the types of non-profit and community projects and organizations. Projects hosted under .org domains are primarily non-profit or - even if they're commercial - they often incorporate a donation to the public domain (i.e. open source projects lead by corporations). Even though there might be "org" domains "absused" for commercial intend, the common understanding of people what ".org" is, is clearly "for the public good". Therefore this TLD shouldn't be treated as any of the new TLDs, which have been established clearly for commercial purposes. Please keep the price increase limits for ".org" as they are. The Internet community at whole will benefit from this on the long run. Regards, c.k.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Rafael Mariotti April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

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] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Diar K. April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

I am a domain name 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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