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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] about rid of price cap
by Madovsky April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

Hi, I'm an jewish artist owning madovsky.org since 22 years now so I really hope I won't have to pay my domain 100 times more as I don't make any profit of my website. This what .ORG was done for right? Regards David

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by David Jimenez Sequero April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

To the attention of the ICANN committee, As an individual domain name registrant, I strongly believe 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. I sincerely hope this proposal is not progressed any further. Thank you for your attention, David Jimenez Sequero -- David J. Sequero | davidjise (at) gmail (dot) com | PGP ID: 0432213D PGP FP: E219 213D 64F2 ADE4 5443 746E E59E 01A2 0432 213D

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

April 28, 2019

I voluntarily operate a small memorial website in remembrance of a dearly loved film actor who passed away over 50 years ago. If the price increase goes beyond my tiny self-funded site I won’t be able to continue with it. Why anyone would want to prevent people to keep a bit of history alive by raising the cost far beyond any justifiable cause? Why attack small people who are only doing what no government or big business will ever do? Why not let the current site owners continue with only a bearable increase? PLEASE DON’T DO THAT TO US. Thank you V Luthra Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Review of .org
by Michael Curtotti April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

Please do not do remove or change cap on pricing on .org it is by its nature non profit. I do not advertise and do not make income on my domain. There are surely many other spaces that are more profit oriented. Please leave a nonprofit space. Regards Michael

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

April 28, 2019

To Whom it May Concern: 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! Sincerely, Vincenzo Amarante, Rome

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on .Org Renewal Change
by Noah Bogart April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

Please do not change the Org renewal process. Allowing of exorbitant price increases and market forces will have a negative impact on the availability and ease of entry for newcomers.

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

April 28, 2019

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] .org pricing
by Aaron Blumer April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

ICANN, Please do not change the price limitations for .org domains. These are mainly non-profits operating with very limited funds, and the proposed changes may result in in a financial burden these organizations are unable to manage. Thanks, Aaron

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Garcia98 April 28, 2019

April 28, 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!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please Reconsider Cost Increase for .org .biz .info Domains
by Kel Sysop April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

Here is a good example of fixing costs so that only the wealthy can pay for these services. Many of the sites that will be affected our non-profits... organizations that need to keep costs down to help those that need the most help. Also, I notice that this is affecting mostly the more utilized domains. In my opinion, this is yet another money grab that represents how little we, the consumers and small business mean to you. My question is: Where will it end? Should just big businesses have domains? From someone who has been in technology well before the Internet came to be for the masses, I can tell you that the Internet is for all, not just the wealthy or for large capital wealth. Increasing costs wont stop big businesses, but it will stop those who are trying to build them. Not what America is all about. Kel Fulgham

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