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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price cap removal is insane
by Dan Forsberg April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Dear ICANN, Supporting .org registrar monopoly and letting them to have no price cap for these domains is insane. I support non-profit orgs and you should too. BR, - Dan Forsberg -- D.Sc. Dan Forsberg, 9x AWS Certified Professional https://www.linkedin.com/in/danforsberg +44 7391 228 338 | dan.forsberg(a)isecure.fi | ISECure Oy | https://www.isecure.fi/

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Metro 2nd Branch Clerk April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I am a .org registrant (non-profit). 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! ____________________________ -Dan Broadhead-

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

April 27, 2019

I am a .org registrant (non-profit). 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] Keep price controls on .org web domain platform
by dee.salmon＠cayuse.com April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hello, Our non-profit 4013c Florida Presbyterian Pilgrimage relies on an inexpensive web domain to continue the work we do. We have extremely limited resources and are an all-volunteer organization. Our purpose is to share God's love through a 3 day retreat which we offer yearly in the state of Florida. We are a connectional group and the website is extremely important to getting information out to our community and continuing this work. Please maintain price controls on the cost of the .org domains, so that we can continue to spread the word. Thank you for your consideration. Dee Salmon

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Don’t do this.
by Jeremiah Samlal April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

15$ is already a lot don’t bump it up!!! This is just so bad I used to think ICANN was food now it’s just money hungry just like the other companies. Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price hike
by Wesley Kirkland April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

No price protection increase for lrgscy GTLDs should be needed. Increasing the price of mkrg in conjunction with Verisigns .com price increase will out price many of the pros of using the legacy GTLDs for individual use and company use. While I love the new GLTDs myself, many people still don't think that a domain can exist if it's not a legacy GLTD. I know personally whenever I give me email no one is familiar with the .me tld. So many if them are bought for brand protection. ~Wesley Kirkland 865-362-9130 wesley(a)wesleyk.me

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] #no-for-price-increase
by SlimaK . April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I am against the removal of the price increase provisions of this proposal.

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

April 27, 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. Adrian Kostrubiak

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org registry
by Timothy Baker April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Whilst there may be competition with regards to the pricing of new domain registrations. There are plenty of TLDs to chose from. There is zero competition with regards to renewals. Once you have registered a domain name, you have spent a serious amount of money advertising or publishing that domain name and will feel compelled to pay whatever renewal prices are asked of you. I therefore request that renewal price caps must be maintained for the .org registry, and any others. Timothy Baker

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Regarding removal of price caps on .org domains
by Harshit jain April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Please don't do that.

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