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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org domain renewal price cap
by Tim Rugg April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

The cost for maintaining .org domains should be based on cost to maintain. This cost should be going down each year - not up. Raising the price cap is giving in to the greed of the monopoly currently in place. If you raise the price cap than you should also open the maintenance of the domain to the lowest bid/price. Regards, Tim Rugg

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Potential price hikes
by John Robins April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

As a small business struggling to keep up a digital presence in a complex and expensive digital landscape, any price increases are going to have a negative impact. We are like many small independent companies, where small budgets have to be stretched thinly across different marketing channels. Price increases of any kind merely reduces the effectiveness of our marketing. And will put even more pressure on small businesses. I am away from the office at the moment. This email has been sent from my iPhone.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Removal of Price Cap on .Org Domain
by Tayo Banjo April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a registrant of .org domains from Africa. Please do not remove the price cap because it will lead to high prices which I and others, particularly in Africa may not be able to afford. Thank you. Tayo Banjo Ijebu Ode, Nigeria

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] No price increases
by Marks Personal Ac April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

To whom it may concern I am completely outraged by the suggested increase for .org domains This should be lowered and cannot go through Regards Mark Dalton Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Don't price nonprofits out of the .org domain!
by Michael Shaw April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I run a small marketing agency that helps nonprofits take advantage of the internet to further their cause. I have seen the kind of shoestring budgets they have to work with. Allowing .org domains to increase by more than 10% a year could be devastating to the already limited online budgets of smaller NGOs. As a society, we can’t afford to let nonprofits get priced out of the web. Keep the caps in place or we are going to see a marked decline in charitable activity online and you will be to blame.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Ayoub Amghough April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

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! Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] NO, NO, NO
by Steve Beisner April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

You should be considering ways to reduce the end user cost for domain name registrations -- NOT discussing proposals that will inevitably raise the costs for everyone. Please... this is a ill-considered, cruel, and anti-democratic proposal that only supports the greedy. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! Steve Beisner beisner(a)alum.mit.edu

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not increase rates for .org domains
by Phillip Mwaniki Nzuli April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hello, it’s sad to find out that your company wants to put non -profit organizations into a corner with high rates on .org domains. You need to remember that non-profit do not do business but instead live on donors and well wishers. Kindly consider your actions and do the right thing. There is harm in what you propose.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposing the proposed removal of price controls from legacy TLDs
by Peter Law April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hi, I am writing to oppose to the proposed removal of price controls from legacy TLDs. Removal of price controls would create an environment where the controlling registry is able to extract disproportionate value from registrants. Much of the value of the .org domain originates with the registrants who entrusted their domains within it. This is a substantial difference to generic TLDs where the value of the TLD can reasonably be seen as partially originating with the registrar who created it. Furthermore, because domain names are not interchangeable (for example icann.org is not replaceable by icann.com without considerable effort) there can be no competition at the point of registration. Instead competition must happen at the point of service provision for the TLD. As a result of these factors, ICANN must consider its responsibility to registrants within legacy TLDs and as the entrusted owner of the legacy TLDs. Thanks, Peter Law

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org registry agreement
by Tim Bergel April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hello, I am the owner of a .org domain, which is not used for any commercial purpose. I am opposed to the proposed change - a legacy top level domain such as .org is very different from the newer commercial TLDs that have been created. In particular .org is used by many non-profits and this change will lead to price increases which will harm these organisations, or make it impossible for them to maintain their domains. This seems to me to be a very unsatisfactory proposal. Yours sincerely, Tim Bergel

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