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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] The proposed .org agreement is a bad idea
by Skidrow Gamez April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org 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] Comments on .org Renewal
by Joe Bruns April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] comment on proposed fee change for .org domain names
by Kim Atkinson April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I’m opposed to allowing the PIG to set any price they want for .org domain names. The standard as set now of 10% a year is sufficient.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Domain Price Increases
by Vivian Ifunanya April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom It May Concern, I am a Namecheap domain owner and I am writing to speak out against the proposed removal of price caps of Namecheap domains by ICANN. I hope my complaint is looked into, and I look forward to your cooperation. Thank you very much. Vivian Ifunanya

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] against contract change
by Alicia Demetropolis April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

As a start up NGO/non-profit, I'm asking you to please keep the current contract restrictions of 10% per year for price increases. It more than accounts for cost of living increases across the board for all parties involved and at all levels of business. We're all in this together. Please don't someone's let greed ruin all of us. Thank you. . . Author of Cannabis Island, Part 1: An Outsider's Look Inside Cannabis Therapeutics, available at Amazon . . . typos added free of charge

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org domain price increase
by Jonathan Vasquez April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, I currently own a . org domain and I would be adversily affected if the prices increase. Please reconsider this decision. Domain name prices should be price stabilized (similar to rent stabilization measures that are done in places such as NYC to control prices from increasing too much on the tenant population). Jonathan Vasquez GPG: 34DA 858C 1447 509E C77A D49F FB85 90B7 C4CA 5279 Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] No changes are necessary
by Nate Moore April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

The current system for managing TLDs, specifically as it pertains to the original set (.org, .net, .com) is perfect and adequate. Do not change it. It's not broken. The proposed changes will open things up to unregulated price changes, and possible significant increases to the cost to run a domain. I remember the late 90's, when your average individual was prices out of domain ownership. That has changed. I proudly run my own stuff now. Don't adopt this change. The consumers will lose. ~Nathaniel Moore Livermore, CA

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the provisions of the .org agreement
by BTW Design Inc. April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: I am a domain name registrant and 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. -- Becky Ward BTW Design® 714. 444-2440 www.btwdesign.com This email may contain information that is confidential or is otherwise the property of BTW Design or its clients. Any use of this information for purposes other than that for which it was intended, including forwarding the information to unauthorized parties or using the ideas or materials contained in this email, may violate U.S. or foreign laws, and is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please let the sender know and delete the message immediately.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .Org registration price increases
by Cooper Francis April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, many registrants holding .org domains receive absolutely NO income from doing so. These registrants bear the entire cost of their domain out of their own pockets. Furthermore, their activities are purely an expression of their U.S. First Amendment Rights. As such, it is inappropriate to allow prices for registration of .org domains to rise above the actual cost of maintaining the service plus a reasonable % profit. Unreasonable registration fees will clearly be seen as an attempt to stifle free speech for the poorest of registrants. Registration fees should never be allowed to be a rich source of income for those who control access to the registration of domains, especially not for .org domains. I am the holder of several .org registrations and my profession is “Engineering Technician”. I could hardly afford to maintain my registrations and subsequently my free speech platforms if fees were allowed to be increased excessively. I know of many others who, like me, make no income from their domains, express their freedom of speech through their .org domains and also provide a means for many other individuals to do so. All of these people would have little or no voice in the public square without such these .org domains. This multitude of limited income individual registrants will be forced out of their .org domains by excessive registration fees. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Fee and price changes
by rob＠thebutlerfamily.org April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am strongly opposed to any increases in fees or prices for domain registrations, especially for those that are supposed to be for non-commercial use such as .org. As you can see, my home email for my family is on a .org, and is non-commercial. I make no money, and in fact have this specifically because of price increases and semi-regular churn of ISP email addresses and systems. The existing pricing structure of a 10% increase per year is also well outside what could be explained even by inflation, especially for part of the internet infrastructure that has been in place for 20+ years -- what possible rational reason could there be for justifying larger increases other than pure greed? In summary -- if any changes are planned regarding fees or prices for domain registrations, updates, or any other related activities, they should be only lowered instead of increased. Regards, Rob Butler

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