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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal
by Robert Griffioen April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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. Robert Griffioen | President | Good News International Ministries PO Box 628 Station A, Abbotsford, BC V2T 6Z8 CANADA Phone: Office 604.776.3600. Fax 604.776.3601. Cell 604.751.1427 Website gniministries.ca gniministries.org https://gniministries.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the provisions of the .org agreement
by James Lund 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 or non-profit organization (the Omaha Symphonic Winds, https://www.omahasymphonicwinds.org/) 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. James Lund Chair, Board of Directors Omaha Symphonic Winds Omaha, Nebraska -- James Lund @lundjames (952) 239-6989

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org
by Mark Berger April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please don't let prices get crazy for org domains. Most of them are indeed non-profits. If anything, org domains should be less expensive than com domains. -- Mark

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comments objecting to the .org renewal
by Adrian Wijasa April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: I am a .org 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] Oppose
by Fred Sahakian April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I oppose the measure to allow unlimited increase in fees. There are may not-for-profit organizations and individual family accounts using this domain. A sharp increase in renewal maybe a hardship for some organizations.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Ivan Tadeu Ferreira Antunes Filho April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

No price limit is absolutely horrible. There is no marginal cost associated with creating new domains, and they have a monopoly on the domains. Removing a price cap won't create innovation nor any incentives to improve service, because there is no service to speak of. This will just be a direct transfer of money and value that will kill websites and make internet a worse place. It will also make the internet more centralized as fewer people will buy those domains.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] PIR Contract
by Bedford First UMC April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please reconsider the elimination of the 10% wholesale price increase cap. Allowing PIR to set their own increases will be detrimental to small organizations who are unable to pay potentially unlimited annual increases. Thank you for your consideration. *Tammy Dodds* Office Manager Bedford First United Methodist Church

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Unfair increase
by Michael Kerschbaumer April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please don’t be cash mongering by giving yourselves unlimited ability to increase prices. It’s not ethical. Especially on .orgs! Michael michaelkerschbaumer art+design 463 W 57th St Studio B NYC NY 10019 +1 646 330 1652 www.michaelkerschbaumer.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Nick Speare April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, I’m writing to let you know that I OBJECT to the terms of the new .org registry agreement. My specific concern is related to the removal of price caps for the org TLD, but I would voice the same concerns for other TLD’s as well. Since .org is typically used for non-profits and the like, removing the price cap would be especially detrimental. It’s rare that deregulation of price ceilings leads to lower prices for consumers. If somebody in the chain feels like they are not receiving enough fees, perhaps it’s better if the cap be raised instead of removed entirely. I appreciate your consideration, thanks, Nick Speare -- Nick Speare nickalas(a)fastmail.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposition to removing price caps on all .org
by Juergen Stein April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

As the owner of the xrmb.org domain I oppose the removing price caps on all .org domains since this will ultimately cause price increases much higher that what we are used to. -js

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