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

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

April 26, 2019

I am a domain name registrant. ICANN does not seem to recognize the difference between a legacy extension created with the support of the US government, that predates the existence of ICANN and that has millions of existing users and the brand new extensions that started off with a new set of rules, in particular no price controls, and no existing registrants. They have completely different characteristics, history, and ownership structure. It is not acceptable for ICANN to ignore these differences and to propose that they be treated the same. Removing price caps is not fair to .org domain owners. Many of them have websites that they have used for years. If price caps are removed, the cost to renew their domain names may become too expensive, and they could be forced to give up websites that are important to them. The Uniform Rapid Suspension policy is too new and untested to apply on domain names that may be 20 years old or more. With the URS, the domain names could be taken down in a matter of days with little notice. ICANN should be doing more to protect owners of .org domain names. Why is ICANN trying to remove price protections for .org domain owners, so many of which are non-profits, so that they can be overcharged for their domain names?

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price cap: proposal to remove
by Carl Friedberg April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

utf8=âœ“ authenticity_token=HJ j0ggHY6mwo5eeXP7EeBcUnZsvvQCpN3qNE0Z19d8p3MnR1B7o8nxDLrke4C6ic zUHxio6zUfkzpfHZSdUg== terms_of_services=yes commit=Continue Hello, I am a very small business. I have a few .org domains, and those do not generate any income. I sincerely hope that ICANN will reconsider their proposal to remove a cap on .org domain price increases. Please leave that the way it is (10% per year if I understand, now). Thank you Carl Friedberg carl.webmeister(a)gmail.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] removing price caps on .orgs will result in exploitation of nonprofits
by Matt Menezes April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hello ICANN, I am a digital media specialist working for a nonprofit funder in the Bay Area. I am extremely concerned that lifting the price caps on .org domains will allow unscrupulous squatters to gouge nonprofits as they seek to acquire critical brand assets, and thereby prevent them from doing critical work to better our community. Please abandon this proposed policy change and keep the existing price caps in place. Thank you for your consideration, Matt -- Matt Menezes Sr. Associate, Digital Engagement Tipping Point Community Pronouns: he/him/his TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY 220 Montgomery Street, Suite 850 San Francisco, CA 94104 o: 415.348.1240 f: 415.348.1237 *MAKE POVERTY PREVENTABLE* www.tippingpoint.org @TIPPINGPOINT

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Domain price caps
by Spencer April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

It is NOT okay to remove price caps on .org domains. Please do your job and protect nonprofits from rent-seeking monopolies.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed increase is unaffordable for a family
by Martin Motz April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

My family have used the Motz.org domain for many years. This is the email address we all give out. There is no way we could afford the proposed new price. Your proposal would mean that organisations and friends would lose contact with us and vice versa. Please reconsider! Best wishes Martin Motz Tel: 020 8748 4589 Mob: 07889 226525 -- Best wishes, Martin Home: 020 8748 4589 Mobile: 07889 226 525

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price increase? NO!
by office＠wernerfilm.com April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

PLEASE DO NOT INCREASE THE PRICES!!!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org pricing
by Marc Menniti April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Can You Forward this to Mr. Russ Weinstein, Global Domains Division I can't find a email and the one on the .org comment section is to globalsupport(a)icann.org <globalsupport(a)icann.org> org pricing unlimited bad plan it hurts the little guy and nonprofits. I am a single .org website user and have a limited budget. Most .org are nonprofits. Versign and godaddy make enough off .coms and such need for the every individual to have a internet voice. net neutrality is bad for the individual. Domains https://godsclimatechangeplan.org<https://godsclimatechangeplan.org/> https://moeddoodle.org<https://moeddoodle.org/> I would be priced out of the market with no voice I will be putting a no charge for .org and .info in God's iClimate iChange iPlan that is what it should be. Squatters can be dealt with more vetting and laws. Regards, Marc marc(a)moeddoodle.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] The world needs non-profits.
by Raudo José Céspedes April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Hi, As this information based era still evolving, the need for non-profits to have presence on the internet is high, lots of people like myself benefit from the usage they use for their domains, by allowing to reach more people and meet their purpose to make the world a better place with opportunities for all living beings. Therefore, I expect that the intention of making .org domains more pricey be discarded. Thank you for reading this comment. Best regards, Raudo Céspedes.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Mourad Hidoussi 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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