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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price increases
by Njuguna Macharia April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

We as a organization are saddened to learn of the proposed price increases. We are not for profit which means our finance comes through donations. The price increases no matter how small it might be will affect our budget. We are opposed to this proposal of price increases. Rev. Dominic macharia IPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Public Interest Registry
by Theatre Group April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

The complete removal of price cap provisions in the current .org agreement could have a severe negative impact on those of us trying to maintain a presence on the internet for our small non-profit corporations. It is my understanding that the Public Interest Registry is also a non-profit, so why bestow on it the opportunity to run amuck and charge anything at all?! If the Public Interest Registry is in financial trouble that is a different story. One which might be mitigated by a gradual increase of 1% per year above the base of the current 10%. Sincerely, Yolanda Day Producer/Director Rio Grande Players, Inc. Albuquerque, NM -- Visit us at: www.riograndeplayers.org

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please leave price protections in place
by Jeremy Kershaw April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I volunteer my IT services for multiple US nonprofits. They will be impacted if you lift price limits on .org domains. I see no compelling reason to do so, while millions of nonprofits will lose funds that could be better spent if you do.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] TLD Name Costs
by Drew Murray April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Should remain fixed and in-expensive !

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Joseph Ciprut April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

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. Respectfully, Joseph Ciprut

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] please do NOT remove cap on .org wholesale prices
by Adam Frost April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Dear ICANN, I work with many non-profits in the Boston area, and it would create a serious hardship for them if the cost of registering their .org domain name went up significantly. We are happy to pay for reasonable increases (up to 10% a year), but removing the cap means the prices can increase to very high amounts, that would be very hard for many non-profits to pay. Thanks very much, Adam Frost Adam Frost, coordinator Computer Care and Learning 617-522-1049 adamfrost(a)computerCareandLearning.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Taylor Silva April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am a domain name 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] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by mail＠llangynog.org April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am a .org registrant (not-for-profit community website). ICANN staff 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 policy making is supposed to be a ‘bottom up, multi-stakeholder model’. I believe that legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit new gTLDs. Legacy TLDs are essentially a public trust, unlike new gTLDs which were created, bought and paid for by private interests. Registrants of legacy TLDs are entitled to price stability and predictability, and should not be subject to price increases with no maximums. Unlike new gTLDs, registrants of legacy TLDs registered their names and made their online presence on legacy TLDs on the basis that price caps would continue to exist. Unrestrained price increases on the millions of .org registrants who are not-for-profits or non-profits would be unfair to them. Unchecked price increases have the potential to result in hundreds of millions of dollars being transferred from these organizations to one non-profit, the Internet Society, with .org registrants receiving no benefit in return. ICANN should not allow one non-profit nearly unlimited access to the funds of other non-profits. ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing price caps. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep a price cap for gTLDs
by Michael Toth April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

All gTLDs should have a price cap. Please do not go forward with this change

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org renewal comment - AGAINST removal of price caps
by Royce Williams April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I can't comment better than Quincy Larson did, who exactly mirrors my opinion and feedback here: Quincy Larson @ossia *Imagine a world where it cost thousands of dollars for nonprofits to renew their domain names each year.* *This is money that isn't going to their missions. * *Instead it's all just going to some monopoly that won a bid back in 2002.* I urge ICANN to leave the caps in place. This will ensure that the PIR continues to fulfill the "Public Interest" part of their name. -- Royce Williams Anchorage, AK

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