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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed changes to ICANN .org registry agreement
by basmith＠revere-systems.com April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Why is section 7.16 and other government related sections and references been removed? This sections should remain in place. Pricing caps should remain in places and truly with today's technology, pricing needs to be reduced. Thanks Brett

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep The Price Cap On .ORG Registration
by Derek G Currie April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Regarding: Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement It was stated: > In alignment with the base registry agreement, the price cap provisions in the current .org agreement, which limited the price of registrations and allowable price increases for registrations, are removed from the .org renewal agreement. This is a terrible idea that can only have been made our of ignorance of the effect upon the Internet. To let loose price gouging on .ORG registration in particular could not be a worse idea. A vast number of non-profit groups and companies use .ORG. Removing the price cap would, without a doubt, be an enormous burden upon these entirely benevolent and beneficial groups of people. Stop now before the public responses with tirades of anger at making domain registration costs well beyond the means of groups or people who should be provided with the very lowest possible costs. Please let economic sense and good will toward humanity guide your decision. Removing the price cap for .ORG is not remotely sensible or good will. Thank you, Derek G. Currie USA ———————————— Derek G Currie derekcurrie [at] mac.com ————————————

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] There's no reason to allow unlimited price increase for domain registration
by Jesse R April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

The process has worked for years. There's zero reason why small businesses and individuals should have to worry that their ability to maintain their online identity could suddenly vanish because of the capricious nature of PIR's greed. The contract language works and allowing for potentially skyrocketing fees runs contrary to the Internet as a whole. -Jesse Reisman

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by David M. Wilson April 26, 2019

April 26, 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. Respectfully, David M. Wilson

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please don't change .org pricing model
by Matt Gerasolo April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Please continue to regulate and maintain the historical provision to limit price increases for .org domain names. It is unfair to new and existing domain name holders who have no choice in supplier and in a market with a controlled monopoly to not have price increase restrictions. Thanks, Matt Gerasolo

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price Increases for.org domains
by Andrew Cook April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hi, As a small nonprofit we rely on our .org domain which has been licensed for a number of years already. Changing domains would be nearly impossible. But so would paying a hugely increased annual reg fee. I would suggest a cap on .org domain pricing for renewals of already-registered domains to protect small organizations who could neither afford to pay huge price increases nor give up the domain they currently use. Perhaps uncapped domains for new registrations might work well side-by-side with this … if there is some valid objective in allowing the registrar to make more income. Thanks, Andrew Cook Equip Foundation

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Nathan 105 April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

This is a really bad idea. The older top level domain names, such as .org, should be available as an affordable resource for anyone who wishes to purchase them for use. There should remain a cap on how much they cost to renew or purchase. Many websites could end up going to the wall as prices increase year on year, which they inevitably will. Regards, Nathan Parkin.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Dave Christian April 26, 2019

April 26, 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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against the Change
by Gabriel Grilli April 26, 2019

April 26, 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! The following entry is from ICANN's website- "ICANN is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable." ICANN is supposed to operate for the public benefit. I don't believe this policy would fall under "public benefit". It would certainly not be beneficial to domain registrants. There are no protections for them. Advancements in technology should be driving the cost of operating a registry down, yet domain prices keep going up. There is no "public benefit" justification to these changes. It is just a handout to business at the expense of registrants’ rights and protections. G Grilli BrickaBrack.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by J P April 26, 2019

April 26, 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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