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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] No more additional charges!
by LM COLLECTION prettycollection April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hello, I've received a break news about an additional charges forecasted against my domain www.prettycollection.org Can you tell me why? I am not agree! Eljaouhari LM Collection owner

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Hold domain name registration increases to 10%
by Shaun Furlong April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hold domain name registration increases to 10% By permitting an uncapped market for domain name registration, people will move to unregulated services like FaceBook at a highly accelerated pace. Do not let this happen. Sincerely, ==================== Shaun Furlong shaun(a)shaunfurlong.com <mailto:shaun@shaunfurlong.com> 303-742-0570

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

April 25, 2019

Non profit organization use .org and you are going to let one entity earn all the profit ? I find it unfair

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Removal of .org price cap
by Dmitry Pravdin April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

No, thanks. I hold pravdin.org and pravdina.org as family domains for myself and my children so unlimited increasing of renewal fee is not suitable for me. -- Dmitry Pravdin

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal
by Diego Zamboni April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org registrant (I run a personal website, which produces no income). 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 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. Best regards, --Diego Zamboni

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

April 25, 2019

Dear Sirs and Mams, I am a .org registrant and a not-for-profit or non-profit organization. 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. Please consider 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. Sincerely, Rosemarie

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Submitting comments opposed to the proposed .org registry agreement
by goldcoast1＠gmail.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. I am a .org 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’. This proposed unilateral action is an abuse of legacy TLDs and of legacy TLD owners, like myself. The term "cash grab" comes to mind. Qui bono? Certainly no one but "URS cronies." 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] The proposed .org agreement is a bad idea
by Mike Rende April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Dear ICANN, I am a .org registrant and a member of several not-for-profit or non-profit organizations. I also design, develop and maintain websites for non-profit organizations that do a lot of good in my community. 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. Raising the prices draws much needed funds away from the goals of the organizations and the people who depend on them. 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. Please maintain a pricing model that is sustainable and predictable for everybody. Mike Rende Oddball Art Labs -and- sitebyMIKE, inc. 847-608-1995 mike(a)sitebymike.com <mailto:mike@sitebymike.com> www.sitebymike.com <http://www.sitebymike.com>

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against the changes proposed in the .org agreement renewal
by Frank Prieto April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. I am a domain name 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? Frank Prieto

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] I object to any .org domain price increase
by Keith.Brown2＠gov.scot April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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