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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Submitting comments opposed to the proposed .org registry agreement
by Have Goals April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Non profits rely on .org domains and can't pay increased fees
by Chad Parson April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please keep the capped limit on .org domain names as non profits predominately all have .org domain names and can't handle increased fees.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Feedback on the .org agreement
by festerdam＠posteo.net April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] I'm against allowing PIR to set whatever price it wants
by Matt Chaput April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I own a .org domain and I don’t believe the PIR should be allowed to set uncapped prices. The current system works perfectly well, and allows them to increase prices quite a lot already. Completely uncapped pricing would be harmful and discriminatory. Thanks, Matt Chaput

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Pricing domain names should be avoided
by Pablo De Grande April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, The situation of third word countries that create internacional initiatives on the web should be considered. Org domains are not only of US-based non profits, but also for more-than-one-country or international projects. 10 us$ in those countries is a lot of money, and the total amount of money collected by domain registrars is abusive. Probably making domains yet more expensive will lead to what happened to domain SSL certificates... market moving out of payed providers. Regards, Pablo.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] OPPOSE lifting price caps on .org domains
by Charlotte Kates April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

.org domains are part of the foundation of the Web as we know it today. Perhaps more than any other TLD, individuals, small non-profits and community groups rely on the .org domain to publish their materials, find supporters and make a home on the Internet. By allowing unlimited price increases on these domains for no legitimate reason and in no way tied to the costs of maintaining the .org registry, ICANN would be putting all of these organizations' ability to communicate at risk. It is almost unconscionable to consider this provision in the .org registry renewal agreement. Instead, price caps should be fully maintained or even further strengthened in the coming years. -- Charlotte L. Kates charlotte.kates(a)gmail.com

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

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, 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 renewal
by David Chu April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please don't increase the cost of ORG domains. I am trying to start a small organization to give open reviews to the public and right now it's coming out of my own pocket to get started and an increase would not help at all. Thank you for your time, David C.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] im a small time website builder and this increase would be devastating to my buisness
by Kristian Corkhill April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

first .org then what happens the rest try to do the same. No stop it before they ruin our internet

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the new .org agreement
by Oren Jay Sofer April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. 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? Oren –– Oren Jay Sofer (he/him) Author of Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication <https://more.orenjaysofer.com/book> web <https://www.orenjaysofer.com/> | fb <https://www.facebook.com/OrenJaySoferPage> | tw <https://twitter.com/orenjaysofer> | ig <https://www.instagram.com/orenjaysofer/> | news <http://eepurl.com/dfOO3H>

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