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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by TypeNames April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hello, I am a .org registrant. 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. Kind regards *Andrew McClean* ACN 160 108 047 PO Box 2108, CAULFIELD JUNCTION VIC 3161, AUSTRALIA *Type Names* USA: +1 650 209 7755 AU: +61 3 9523 6840 <%2B61%203%209770%209000>

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Sam G. April 27, 2019

April 27, 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. All in all, for a .org domain I paid 5$ in 2000s is now costing more than 22$ in 2019. Concerning all global registrants of .org domains, these renewal cost price hikes will only be detrimental in the long-run. -- *E-mail Confidentiality Disclaimer: This message is for the designated recipient and may contain privileged, proprietary or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original email. Any other use of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and unauthorized.*

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Neil Bostick April 27, 2019

April 27, 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] Domain Price Increase
by Sty Lista April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

No to the domain increase!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Oppose price increases for .org
by Dean Collins April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I oppose the price increases for .org domains. It seems too extreme of a change. Dean

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Mike Aaron April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I am a .org registrant (non-profit). 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 and are for community building, educational or other noble and not very lucrative purposes. 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 - objection to any increase/changes in fees
by abetiangco＠gmail.com April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Dear ICANN, allowing PIR to increase the wholesale price of .org domains by 10% a year is already TOO MUCH. We object to lifting these limits instead proposed that they be lowered to less than 10% per year. Abe Tiangco mobile 0908 86 222 76 NOTICE: This message may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering it thereto, you may not disclose, use, disseminate, distribute, copy, keep a record of or take any action in reliance upon this message or any attachments thereto in any way. If you receive this message in error, please return it by forwarding the message and any attachments to the sender and then deleting your copy of the email received. The sender is not responsible for any errors, omissions, corruption or virus in the contents of this message or any attachments thereto. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Jason Sheppard April 27, 2019

April 27, 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] Price limits on .org domains
by Marc Culler April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Dear ICANN, Everyone can see in the political environment of today everyone with power and money is encouraged to exploit people who are vulnerable to the maximum extent possible. Please do not succumb to the temptation to join this movement. Most owners of .org or .info domain names are like me, using the domain name as a way of providing an internet presence for themselves or for organizations that they belong to, with no intent or desire to make any money from the internet. Examples include marc-culler.info, which hosts my personal web page, and computop.org (including snappy.computop.org) which hosts some of the open source software that I write and distribute for free. Yes, using the internet for non-profit activity makes us vulnerable to exploitation. That doesn't mean that you should encourage such exploitation. Do not remove the linitations on price increases for the .org and .info domains, please. Sincerely, Marc Culler

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org Price Caps
by Michael Gallipo April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

As someone who has been involved with non-profits for decades and is now working in technology, the idea of lifting the price caps on .org registrations and allowing them to be set by a monopolist might be one of the worst ideas I have ever heard. First, .orgs by their very nature are not businesses and should not be treated as such. So the ‘rationale’ in the proposal, though it seems charitable to call it such, t treat it more like other registrations is flawed from the start. Second, this is technology in 2019. Why in the world should costs be going up? This isn’t new technology. This isn’t .org v3.0 with all of these new features and performance improvements. I can see zero justification for removing the pricing caps. At most, if the provider can document legitimate increases in their operating costs (possible though I am dubious), then adjust the caps slightly, don’t eliminate them. In short, I could not be more opposed to this proposal as currently written and I hope that is scrapped or at least substantially revised. Thank you for time and attention. Sincerely, Michael Gallipo President, cochecolacrosse.org Boys Vice President, nhyla.org Chair, PR Committee, portsmouthpromusica.org Sent from my iPhone

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