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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org renewal
by Tara Roberts May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

To whom is may concern: I write today to encourage you to keep price increase limits for .org sites in place. As the adviser for a non-profit university radio station that uses a .org website, I know how little money most nonprofits have to spend on things like web addresses — yet we can’t exist without a web presence. Please help protect small nonprofit programs like mine. Sincerely, Tara Roberts KUOI FM 89.3

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Daniel Ramer May 12, 2019

May 12, 2019

I am a .org registrant (not-for-profit). 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. https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-r-716536155

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Jared Pack May 10, 2019

May 10, 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. ᐧ

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Removal of price cap
by Herm Baskerville May 9, 2019

May 9, 2019

I own .com, .net and .org addresses through a registrar. *I object in the strongest possible terms* to the idea of removing the price cap for domains. The current limit of 10% inflation is reasonable. Unlimited prices are not. *Please reconsider this urgently* because it would have severe effects on the democratisation of the web, which is already under threat. I do not trust PIR to behave reasonably, even if it promises to, and nor should anyone. *Prices must continue to be carefully regulated to ensure an open, fair, free web.* Thank you HB

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Brittany Hodges May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

I am a .org registrant (not-for-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! Thank you Brittany Hodges

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] DO NOT INCREASE PRICING.
by RUSS SMITH May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

DO NOT INCREASE PRICING. this is absolutely counter intuitive to the nature of .org domains… most are trying to help the world! -Russ Smith --------------------------------------------- russ c. smith executive producer chocolate media +49 (0)1578 7706393 https://ChocolateMedia.de --------------------------------------------- perception is reality. lack of perception, is reality.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Possible price hikes are unfair to existing domain owners
by Khee Hong Loke May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019

I would like to oppose the removal of price caps for the .org domain. The removal of the price cap will most likely result in a price hike for the domain name, and this is extremely unfair to existing domain holders who, for many years, have come to expect low cost ownership of these domains. Current TLDs that do not have a price cap have already resulted in extortion level prices, causing them to not be used for their intended purpose. Khee Hong Loke Brisbane, Australia

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Mustafa Kerim Yılmaz May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019

I am a .org registrant (non-profit). 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] .Org renewal
by Kathryn Alexander May 6, 2019

May 6, 2019

Folks, Keep your integrity. Profit should be in relationship to income and expenses not out in free fall. Stash the greed! Sent while on the go...

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Humans need to win...
by Janelle Klein May 6, 2019

May 6, 2019

I’m a concerned human. We’re at a turning point in history, where every human needs to take a step back, and really think about what type of future we want, and all do our part to help build that future. Why on earth would we want to make things more difficult and expensive for non-profits? Especially during a time when we are cutting back government support, non-profits will need to pick up the slack. This is real... Humanity needs to win. Please don’t lift the price caps for .org domain registration. Whoever is reading this... you are a human too. We are all one tribe. Does this really make sense to you as a good idea? Regards, Janelle Sent from my iPhone

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