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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price caps on .ORG domain names
by Pitts Fred April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To Whom It May Concern: It has come to our attention that the current caps on annual rises in prices for domain names is going to expire and that wholesale registries will be free to charge whatever amount they desire rather than the cap of 10% currently permitted. As you know, the .ORG designation is the the first choice for non-profit organizations, such as the one I lead. Such organization already have to raise funds to fulfill their missions, and removing a cap on domain names would provide a hardship for most of us that does not seem to be warranted. Please keep in place the cap on annual rises for .ORG designations. Thank you for your consideration of this request. Fred Pitts

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] org domain cap increase
by R Portwood April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

hey there, please do not increase .org, info and biz caps because it will force small & medium registrars out of business, which i prefer out of nonresponsive corporate overlords. do not bring Comcast level service to the registrar world. its in your power to act with great responsibility over this matter. thanks, r.portwood -Please forgive typos, sent from a mobile telephone device.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to new fee schedule
by Zeus April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Why change from an allowed 10% increase to whatever company decides....crazy....keep current price structure. Regards

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] keep domain prices reasonable!
by Marshall Glickman April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi: I am a domain name registrant. 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! Marshall [https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BzceUoCB5hlIeFZoRFd4MXlTbWM&…] Marshall Glickman | Owner/Publisher Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. | 22 Browne Ct. #100, Brattleboro, VT 05301 P: 802.257.6900<tel:802.257.6900>, ext. 701 | marshall(a)echopointbooks.com<mailto:marshall@echopointbooks.com> | echopointbooks.com<http://echopointbooks.com/>

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

April 25, 2019

I'm writing to request that ICANN reconsiders removing registration price caps on .org domains. .org is one of the most widely used and recognized top level domains. If price caps are removed, registration and renewal of these domains may become uneconomical, forcing many important organizations to change their addresses and threatening the prominence of .org. Unlike newer gTLD’s, .org is already very established. Allowing PIR, the registry operator, to act monopolistically with such a prominent TLD goes against what the Web should be. Samuel C. Blackman, MD, PhD -- Samuel C. Blackman, MD, PhD Seattle, WA 98103 samuel.blackman(a)gmail.com (617) 312-8626 (personal)

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] I don't want any change in prices
by Ahmad El-wahidy April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I don't want any change in prices Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please RETAIN caps on .org domain price increases
by Ian Sullivan April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am *very* concerned about the removal of the price caps for .org domains and strongly support retaining those caps in future. I have built my online life and personal projects around .org domains for the last 15 years. Removing the price caps will give wholesalers the ability to hold hostage those of us who already have these domains. Domain registration is inherently a monopoly business and setting basic price controls at the highest level is the most effective means to prevent the abuse of that monopoly power by those with whom you contract. A 10% annual price cap is already massively higher than the rate of economic growth basically anywhere in the world so even that previous rate already builds in a significant profit margin. Please reconsider and preserve these price caps in the future. Sincerely, Ian

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Not acceptable price hikes
by michael bebbington April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comments objecting to the .org renewal
by ErrLock 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] Propised deregulation
by jerry bumbaugh April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

We are a very small non-profit theater company. Typically theater productions lose money om every.show. We depend upon donations and benefactors just to keep afloat.Every dime is precious to us. ANY increases are difficult to deal with.I urge you to not raise prices which deregulation will surely cause. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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