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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Removal of '.org' price caps
by Daniel Okey-Okoro April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

You have it backwards. You should be lowering prices not raising them. Especially for non-profits. Please, decide to build a better future instead of delaying it. Best Intentions, Daniel Okey-Okoro

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Org Domains Renewal
by Ivar Combrinck April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

Dear Sir or Madam. As the owner of several .org domain names, I fundamentally disagree with the decision to remove the cap on price increases. Already, these domains are too expensive to register and the cost does not appear to be justified, given the fact that computing and server cost have gone down significantly … to the contrary, the costs for domain registrations should be coming down! Please DO NOT proceed with any action that would lead to price increases for domain owners. Thank you Ivar

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Roy Ivy April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

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] Please keep the cap
by Luke Hackenberg April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

Please keep the price cap that has allowed the internet to be accessible to all; raising rates only lessens that.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Don't Change the Price of .org
by Chukwuma Ogbodo April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

Hi ICANN, Changing the prices of domain name, especially .org, will impact negatively on the growing internet business in most developing countries, especially in Africa. It will deter upcoming businesses to choose the name while others will simply ignore the use of internet altogether. More so, the changes in prices will directly and indirectly affect the hosting prices as most of the domain registrars/hosts will increase the prices they charge. In all cases, it will negatively affect businesses. Please, reconsider. Thanks Ogbodo, Chukwuma SolPro

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep price caps
by Kari Steeves April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

You know, one could argue domain names ought to be free. a 10% annual raise is more than enough. Just stop with the greed, the constant focus on profit, the lack of community spirit. Most .orgs are operating on a shoestring as it is. Please. I nearby formally comment that the .org Registry Agreement should not lift the cap on domain name prices. Kari Steeves 917-880-8146

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Myles McNamara April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Myles McNamara April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Myles April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

I am a .org 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] Domains such as .org and .edu deserve special consideration
by Gay Anderson April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

It's ironic that one non-profit organization is seeking to raise prices, potentially without limit, on all the others. Having a cap on price increases ensures that non-profits who may have been using their .org domain name for many years aren't faced with the two terrible options of either paying high fees to keep their domain or enduring the pain of changing TLDs. Even though the option to change TLD is supposed to put the brakes on excessive price increases by allowing competition, it seems to be a specious argument due to the potential loss of web traffic, the expense of rebranding and the probable loss of donations made via the nonprofit's web site. Without other external oversight to keep price increases reasonable, a yearly cap is a simple way for PIR to pay the bills and nonprofits to have predictable rates for their domain name registration. Respectfully submitted, Gay Anderson

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