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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do Not Approve the .Org Agreement Renewal
by Russ Guthrie April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. 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? Russ Guthrie

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Increasing Fees Not Good
by Stephen Weaver April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am the executive director for the Ross Volunteer Association. We are a non-profit organization, with the sole purpose of raising money for members of the Ross Volunteer Company at Texas A&M University. This is a student organization that has been in existence longer than any other student organization in the State of Texas. The Ross Volunteer Company is also the Honor Guard for the Governor of the State of Texas. Being a non-profit, we have a very limited ability to raise money. To significantly increase the funds necessary to continue to maintain or .org URL could be devastating to both the Ross Volunteer Association and to the Ross Volunteer Company, the student organization that we support. We have no deep pockets. We have no paid employees to the non-profit organization. We are only able to pay for a website through member donations. A significant increase in those costs may put the organization out of business. PLEASE RECONSIDER KEEPING YOUR COSTS AS LOW AS POSSIBLE FOR ORGANIZATIONS LIKE US. Steve Weaver '74 Executive Director, Ross Volunteer Association Aggie74sw(a)gmail.com<mailto:Aggie74sw@gmail.com> (214)215-7248

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] NO to .org domain price increases
by Chuck Taggart April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I understand that your pending contract renewal with PIR would allow them to charge whatever they wanted for .org domains. This puts the .org domain I have owned for 20+ years in danger due to lack of affordability, and would negatively affect myriad organizations (including nonprofits and charities). I strongly urge you to NOT lift price caps on .org domain registries and renewals. Best regards, Chuck Taggart Owner, gumbo.org since 1998

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Peter Kirby April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, There are a lot of small organizations that do good work, rely mostly on volunteer effort, and don’t have a lot of funds raised. The web site could be one of their only ways to raise awareness for their cause. Please try to limit fee increases for .org domains as much as possible. Thank you, Peter Kirby

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Objection
by T.Nolf April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I understand that there is a proposal afoot which will allow Public Interest Registry who have a monopoly or a near monopoly either over the entire market or over a very large part of the market to increase the price of .org domains at will. This is a completely outrageous proposal. The cost of .org domains should be protected against inflationary price rises and this should be done in the REAL public interest. A fraudulently-named company should not be allowed to fill its pockets against global interest. Taco Nolf, LL.B., DLP Attorney Aberdeen, Scotland

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Writing to express opposition to the terms of the proposed renewal of the .org registry agreement
by Ruth Kiehlmeier April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, 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. Ruth Kiehlmeier

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price
by Михаил Михаил April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

As a domains owner we would like to inform that we stand against price increasing. Please do Your best not to increase prices. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Без вирусов. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Asad Mahmud April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear, Don't increase the prices, I learned about domain by spending time and money on them just because they were within the reach of my pocket, most of us dont generate any revenue from them untill after learning about them for long so please let domain be approachable within a common mans pocket. Thanks. Kind Regards, Asad

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not penalize no profit
by Massimo Cardaci April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear all, I am managing since 1996 one web presence in support to people with disability, and since 2008 a small no profit organization for Long Distance Adoption of children around the world. Our strength is to devolve 100% of the funds we collate. We absorb the costs of maintaining the organization and its IT presence on the web. Please think about the fact that small organizations like our are the backbone of the worldwide solidarity, doing much more than official big institutions. Already now we do not have specific benefits in ensuring our presence on the web, being treated as any commercial entity, which is wrong. Please do not penalize us even further by enabling uncontrolled and significant increases of the .org domains. The net result of this deregulation can be the closure of the activity, since the members are covering costs by subtracting money to their family budgets, and none of us is rich. Counting on your support. -- Have a nice day Max

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal
by Westford Rotary President April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit organization. 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. +++ If you shop on Amazon, please use this link— https://smile.amazon.com/ch/04-3540698 — to have Amazon donate 0.5% of your purchases to our 501(c)(3) Westford Rotary Charitable Foundation. It doesn't cost you a dime more, and you're helping us support worthy causes locally, nationally, and globally. Thank You!! +++ <applewebdata://1F415605-C095-43D5-98DC-0D36BB0A3DCA#> Mike Beek President, Westford (MA) Rotary 16 Bradley Lane, Westford MA 01886 t: 978.800.4200 <tel:978.800.4200> e: westfordrotarypres(a)gmail.com <mailto:westfordrotarypres@gmail.com>

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