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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comments on proposal to remove .org price cap
by Plu Net April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

What is the business case to permit significant increases in cost for .org domain registrations? Is the registry loosing money? Is it facing an existential threat? Is it facing significant additional costs to run its service over the next period? Organisations that are providing serivces such as registry services for defactco domain services such as .com, .org, .net etc need to continue to be regulated. Perhaps your contract needs to be more flexible, allowing a price-index style cost increase and if there is a significant technology change where investment in the domain registry beyond what the existing income stream can provide is required (and which would need to be clearly demonstrated to an independant panel) then permit the licence holder to apply for additional income for a specific period of time solely to address that need. It has to be noted that .org is the home of many non-profit organisation, some of which are very small community orgisations, and their online presence could be highly disruptive if their domain registry fees increase to such a level that they have to jump to a new domain name. You would be unlikely to be popular as an organisation having given the licence holder an opportunity to print money at the cost of charities and communities organisations that can ill afford the additional cost. Also note that .org is usually more expensive than .com and .net depending where you buy it from. Tomo.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Bad Idea
by Michael Guerrero April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Your decision to remove the price cap on those domains puts those who have already carved a space for themselves in a vulnerable position. Why would you do that? The thought of having my web experience lessened because you made a decision that only benefited the rich and greedy is disappointing. Please move on to more productive topics that strengthen the openness and power of the internet to for good.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] economics
by Eric April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price changes
by Dean Sabella April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hi, I oppose lifting price controls on .org hostnames. I have been running a not-for-profit .org domain for the last 18 years. I don't think it's fair that arbitrary price rises should be allowed by a single entity providing services to not-for-profits. Please do not allow this change. Thanks, Dean

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

April 27, 2019

The price cap must remain in place.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Domain name for non profits
by Simon Akpoveso April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I believe the CAP on price of domain for non profit organizations should be kept. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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

April 27, 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] I write to oppose the removal of price caps
by IT Support April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I write to oppose the removal of price caps on any of the “legacy” TLDs as doing so will only create a free-for-all on limitless price increases across the well-established board. The new GTLDs are already accepted as alternative options with price expectations that vary greatly based on the registry; however, current registrants of older well established extensions are expected to maintain some level of stability. These legacy domain names, some of which have been registered for many years, are unlike the new mess being created and owners of these legacy names have a reasonable expectation of affordability and stability. The old manta goes ‘if it is not broken, you do not try and fix it.’ The vast majority of domain owners will remain unaffected so long as the fluctuating and exorbitant prices remain in the newer name space; there will be plenty of years ahead for ICANN to benefit from those while allowing stability within the legacy name space. Leave well enough alone and move forward without effecting millions and millions of current and well established registrants who expect their domain expenses to remain reasonable, affordable and stable.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org domain price increase
by satyendra pratap April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hi team, Its my sincere request that if you can please avoid increase in domain prices as it impacts a lot for small enterprises like us who don't have much budget to keep domains active and support our causes. Hoping for your kind consideration Regards, Satyendra pratap Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36>

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

April 27, 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! ICANN needs to do what is right and not allow unrestrained price increases on .org registrants, stand up for the public interest and the registrants! Thank you, Walter Erickson

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