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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keeping .org prices reasonable
by Joseph Peha April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Please ensure that prices for .org domains (and others) are properly regulated to avoid massive price increases. Many small organizations and nonprofits use the .org domain extension. Allowing large price increases would upend many organizations' web presences. Thank you for your consideration.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Important: Please continue price protection for .org domain
by Jean Twombly April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hello, ICANN Directors, I represent a non-profit organization who provides environmental services to a New Hampshire lake community, including: * lake water quality testing * volunteer and paid hosts at the boating ramp who educate boaters on safe practices and check for invasive species * volunteers who patrol the shoreline to spot, identify, and take steps to remediate any invasive species * programs to promote - loon nesting and habitat for other endangered species - discontinuance of the use of lead fishing sinkers which kill loons - planting and nurturing of healthy shoreline vegetation - use of lake-friendly household products * shoreline tree and beach management and more Our lake serves as the town water source through wells dug in a sandy esker which runs across most of the center of the lake. Through careful lake management, education of our wealthy visitor population and lake property owners, the Little Sunapee Protective Association, now in the 50th year of lake stewardship, has been able to maintain the lake as a fully recreational water source, including unrestricted swimming and boating, as well as a primary source of drinking water. The status of the lake is oligotrophic (highest quality of water clarity, low phosphorous, and good oxygen content). We, like many, many other non profit organizations, rely upon our http://www.littlesunapee.org website to promote lake health programs, to extend our financial support, and to publish communications. We respectfully ask the ICANN organization to assist non-profit organizations in their difficult mission of public education by continuing to offer price protection for the .org domain. It would be a great financial hardship to purchase a domain at the current dollar figure for unprotected domains such as .com. Jean Twombly Board Member Little Sunapee Protective Association PO Box 1563 New London, NH 03257

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please Don't Raise Domain Fees for .org organizations
by Cindy Parker April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hello, I'm contacting you on behalf of the South Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics. We are quite concerned about the possible rising price of domain name fees. We are a non profit organization with a very limited budget. We pinch our dollars and cents in order to benefit mathematics education in the state of South Carolina. The more in expenses that we incur, the fewer dollars that we have for scholarships and teacher grants. Our income is produced from our annual math conference. Teachers register and pay their dues at our scctm.org domain website. Speakers submit their proposals to speak at the conference and are notified of acceptance via our scctmconference.org domain. Please reconsider huge price increases. Huge overheads will not only hamper nonprofits but will also hurt small businesses. Thank you for your consideration. Cindy Parker Cindy Parker, M.Ed. Executive Director South Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics 803.720.9148 director(a)scctmconference.org scctm.org Please use this link to submit your proposal for the 2019 SCCTM Math Conference being held in Greenville, South Carolina Submit Your 2019 Speaker Proposal <https://goo.gl/forms/ybqoNr4UoGKxqAgm1> Register for the 2019 SCCTM Fall Conference being held in Greenville: Register to attend <https://scctm.wildapricot.org/event-3237402> Exhibitors may register and pay online here: Exhibitors <https://scctm.wildapricot.org/event-3237284> SCCTM is in need of volunteers willing to share their time and talents in order to help the organization grow by continuing to "Sow a Seed." Please click on the link in order to volunteer with SCCTM. Volunteer with SCCTM <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxr5XIA4PrGZhUbd_MlNO9fcSwWctSjJj…> "Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away....." This Momentous Day, H.R. White

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .ORG Registry Agreement
by Ismail Mohamed Sidiya April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Dear ICANN I am a .ORG registrant. Please do NOT allow the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to set whatever price it wants! Regards Ismail

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org renewal
by William Sember April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Please do not remove the restrictions on .org pricing. One organization (PIR) cannot be trusted to set a fair market price on .org domains because they have a 100% monopoly. As .org is a legacy TLD, many, many organizations will not have the option to easily change and will be harmed by drastic prices increases. -- William Sember The Worker Tech theworker.tech <http://www.theworker.tech/> (937) 381-9507 Sidney, Ohio

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

April 26, 2019

This is a blatant money grab by ICANN and/or domain squatters to extort internet users and organizations/businesses. What reasoning could there possibly be to raise the fee limit so high for what amounts to a few lines of text? I am extremely opposed to section 6.1 of the renewal agreement as it applies to .ORG domains.

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

April 26, 2019

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.

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

April 26, 2019

This is a good example of how to UNlevel the playing field for small non-profits. Please do not change the way the .orgs are registered. Beth Camero Technology Manager Quality Care Health Foundation California Association of Health Facilities 916-432-5183

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Seth Casana 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! Sincerely, Seth Casana

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Don't remove cap on .org domain price
by Ishan Jain April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hi there! Please don't remove the limit on .org domain prices. This is a terrible extreme-capitalist move and I don't want that here. Regards Ishan Jain

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