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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal
by Chris Sims April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am a domain name registrant, and have registered many .org domains in the past. 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] .org
by Nicholas Tillman April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I run a multiple personal websites under .org which do not collect any money other than donations as they are utilized for 501c3 organizations, nothing is for personal monetary gain. Increasing the price for .org would only add an unnecessary burden to us who are only trying to make the world better through ministry, outreach, philanthropy, and humanitarian aid. Please don't allow fees to increase and potentially stifle voices in the world making a difference! Thank you.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Just trying to make the world better - don't increase the .org price
by Nicholas Tillman April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I run a multiple personal websites under .org which do not collect any money other than donations as they are utilized for 501c3 organizations, nothing is for personal monetary gain. Increasing the price for .org would only add an unnecessary burden to us who are only trying to make the world better through ministry, outreach, philanthropy, and humanitarian aid. Please don't allow fees to increase and potentially stifle voices in the world making a difference! Thank you.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price increases
by Kwan Skinner April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

A friendly comment on this matter: You can continue to increase the price on .org domains, but in the long run this will become so expensive relative into other TLDs that the economics won’t work out for you. I will just buy a .com or something else that isn’t so ridiculously expensive.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Pricing for Domain Name Registrations and Registry Services (Section 2.10 of the .org renewal agreement)
by Ken April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I strongly disagree with the proposal to remove the price caps on registrations in the .org domain. "org" has historically served as the domain of non-profit organizations. I understand that that restriction has legally been removed, but the need and reasoning behind having a low bar for entry into domain registration for organizations still remains. The domain name system has become commercialized and monetized to the degree that, recently, Rossi Lorathio Adams II tried to obtain a domain name at gunpoint. It might be naive, but keeping one portion of the domain system free from price wars and literal wars is for the public's good. There are nigh infinite other top level domains where ICANN can make money. Thanks for your consideration, K

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Writing to express opposition to the terms of the proposed renewal of the .org registry agreement
by George Bittner April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. 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. George Bittner

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Why??
by Michael Nguyen April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Like many .org registrants, I run a not-for-profit organization. I pay for this domain out of my own pocket and now you want to create a proposal that basically ensures that only the entities with the greatest funds can own a domain name? I guess for the rest of us, it's Gmail and Facebook pages, right?

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] The proposed .org agreement is a bad idea
by cognisis April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. I am a .org 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] The proposed .org agreement is a bad idea
by Linda Phillips April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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] .org renewal
by Devin Wolfe April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern, I am writing to show my disapproval of removing the .org price cap. I run a small non-profit organization that has gained an identity in our community that ties to our URL. If prices are to increase with no controls, we may not be able to afford to hold our URLs. We rely on new URLs for our programs and partnerships to drive traffic to where we can do the most good. That will make it incredibly harder for the public to discover us and our programs. Please say NO to the current changes to the .org renewal agreement, especially Section 2.17 and Specification 11 of the .org renewal agreement. This move will be bad for an untold amount of small non-profits worldwide. Thank you, Devin Wolfe Akron MakerSpace

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