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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not remove price caps on .org domains
by John Ritterbush April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I volunteer for a local arts group that provides classes and training on learning to create art, tools, and other things out of metal and stone. They have no budget and put it all back into programming. The cost to maintain a very basic website for them is cheap and I pay out of my own pocket for them because I believe in what they do. A few years ago the previous person managing the site lost the rights to our domain and I had to negotiate with some scab of a human that just squats on domains for money. I again paid out of pocket to get this domain back from them. This is only to say that the world is full of people looking to just take advantage of everyone so we need to make sure organizations that actually do good can do so without paying so many extra fees to remain active and discoverable on the web. By removing the price caps on .org domains it creates a world where I have to start assessing the value of paying for that out of pocket. When that price goes up, it gets harder and harder for them to maintain the SEO and value built around that domain if it costs significant amounts to renew each year. Please do not remove the caps on .org domains. Many nonprofit orgs will suffer because of this reckless choice. Thank you, John Ritterbush

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not remove price caps on .org
by rich felker April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

There is no reason to allow registrars to charge exorbitant fees for any domain; allowing it for one of the main traditional TLDs that many individuals and small organizations rely on would be grossly irresponsible. Do not remove the price caps on .org.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org domains
by Xavier Suárez Vodopivec April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do not remove the price cap provisions
by Brian Chen April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not remove the price cap provisions for the .org Top Level Domain. Many uses of the .org Domain are small not-for-profits that cannot afford annual price increases.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] I oppose the lifting of the price caps on domains....
by David Ainsburg April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

.org domains are overwhelmingly used by non-profit and charitable groups. Lifting the price cap on those domains leaves them defenseless against predatory pricing in the future. No one can predict the future, so I want ICANN to at least ensure that public interest domains have full protection against exploitation for as long as possible. Best regards, David Ainsburg 619-889-2411 dains(a)dainsburg.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the current pricing for .org
by Joachim Andersson April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

You greedy bastards!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org
by Kevin McGinnis April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you for servicing and working in the .org world where charities and nonprofits can obtain URLs that match their names, needs, and causes. Please bear in mind when considering a rate increase on .org URLs that charities operate on very thin budgets, tight margins, and serve communities for the better with what they have to give. Raise the prices of .org website domains can be met with more profit, but at the expense of less charity, less community, and less giving back from those charties as costs to operate rise. Please consider being part of a solution to help charities benefit the world we live in by keeping prices stable. Thank you :)

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

April 25, 2019

Please DO NOT remove price caps on .org top level domains. Your purpose is to serve the public, NOT privately owned corporate business… Sincerely, John Fridinger

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

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. I am a domain name 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] Price change.
by Prithvi Raj April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please keep the prices as they are. Regards, Prithvi Raj

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