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

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

April 25, 2019

Please don't raise the prices of org domains please

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] In opposition to .org price hikes
by Eric Zheng April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Others have phrased this more eloquently, but just my two cents: the .org TLD is a critical part of today's Internet; it possesses both historical and social value to the public. Allowing any one organization to have unfettered, monopolistic control over its pricing is therefore a bad idea. The pricing provisions should stay as they are, in the best interest of the ten million .org registrants and the billions who rely on .org sites every day. - Eric

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] It's not fair icann
by Sathish Krishna April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dont do that. Dont let t PIR set whatever prices it wants on org domain.. I strongly oppose this

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] New Pricing Scheme Stinks
by John Kirkwood April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

This new pricing scheme is totally inequitable and not in the spirit of the internet. I am FORCEFULLY objecting to the new pricing plan. Sincerely, John M. Kirkwood, CHFP johnmkirkwood.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org domain name fee
by Peter Gyallay-Pap April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear colleagues, our small educational non-profit for Cambodia, a 501c3 run by volunteers, would be seriously impacted by a substantial domain name price increase. Please take into account and support private voluntary efforts to improve people's lives. Thank you, Peter Gyallay-Pap, ad interim executive director, Khmer-Buddhils Educational Assistance Project (KEAP)a 501c3

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] unregulated .org wholesale pricing.
by Kevin Glick April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

..org addresses are for individuals and non-profits. Allowing unregulated pricing will, in effect, cause these individuals and organizations to be subject to cost that may drive them off the net and are not justified by the cost of their maintenance. This is a bad idea and helps no one save the monied interests. Kevin B. Glick

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] I am against the name fee increases
by Pascal Ngben April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am against the increases of domaine name such as the congobasinaction which is a nonprofit. Regards

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Speaking up against rate increase for .org
by Kate Hutter April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, I am writing to submit my comment against the removal of capped rate increases to .org renewals. As someone who runs a non-profit organization, unexpected price increases are literally crippling as cash flow is challenging and slowly gained. A significant rate increase to a domain name could make us need to remove use of a website entirely and rely only on affordable platforms on social media. I greatly appreciate your reconsideration of this matter. Thank you, -Kate -- Kate Hutter Co-founder & Board President L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (213) 304-2189 kate(a)lacontemporarydance.org www.ladanceco.org.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Feedback on the .org agreement
by David Malek 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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Removing caps on .org, .info., .biz top domain prices
by Naomi Jacobs and David Schwartz April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

It is our understanding that there’s a discussion regarding the removal of price caps on .org, .info, .biz top level domains. We have all our domains registered with Namecheap. We have a .org domain ourselves. If you remove the price caps, here’s what will happen. People like ourselves who have trouble feeding ourselves, much less maintaining a domain name will have to close up shop. In our case, our domain bipolaradvocacy.org warns against the practices of a very unscrupulous psychiatric institution in Colorado. We just renewed the domain, but may not be able to keep it aloft if a price cap were removed. There are many other charitable and business organizations whose brand and very existence are tied to their top level domain. If you remove price caps, you will be responsible for their demise. Is there not enough greed in the world? Enough! Keep the price caps indefinitely! Sincerely, Naomi Jacobs and David Schwartz (314) 363-8087 artsypoets(a)art2uplift.com Art to uplift the spirit https://www.art2uplift.com

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