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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] ICANN - Pricing Cap
by Levy County Parks & Mosquito Control Department April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To Whom It May Concern: The price cap in the Contract for .org, .info, and .biz should be extended. Domains are so vast, that I am sure all those involved are reaping rewards. The small business man and local government have many other areas in which to expend their dollars. I am not as familiar with (.info) but if it helps teach people why charge more for educating the public? Thank you, Susan Billings Office Manager Levy County Parks & Recreation Levy County Mosquito Control 620 North Hathaway Avenue P.O. Box 248 Bronson, Florida 32621 352.486.5127, Office 352.486.5165, Fax parksmc(a)levycounty.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication and attachments may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. You must destroy all copies of this communication and any attachments.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .ORG Registry Agreement
by frank.griffin125＠gmail.com April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am a .org 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! Sincerely, Frank Griffin

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org renewals
by Keith Hirst April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Regards The .org domain is used by many not for profit community groups, any increase in their expenses will prohibit the good and necessary work for deprived and helpless communities that they serve. Regards Keith Hirst - provider of websites for community groups.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price cap on .org domains
by Andreas Baumann April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, As owner of pgfuse.org, openbsd-firewall.org and co-worker in the archlinux32.org project I object against removing the price cap on organisational domains. Putting free labour into those projects and paying for hosting fees is already enough. When domain names start to get more expensive, this kind of community work will be significantly harder. With kind regards Andreas Baumann -- Andreas Baumann Trottenstrasse 20 CH-8037 Zuerich Telefon: +41(0)76/373 01 29 E-mail: mail(a)andreasbaumann.cc Homepage: www.andreasbaumann.cc

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] A Request to Not Remove Fee Capping
by Josh B April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: Please do not remove the capping fee regulations for the .ORG extension. Thank you most sincerely. Kind Regards, Joshua Brow JB Ventures 661.513.4231 JBVentures.Agency Making Your Digital Presence Profound Google Partners | Shopify Experts | GoDaddy Pro Plus

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please don’t remove cap
by Tom Bennet April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Hi, I use a .org domain for my personal blog because the prices for renewal are low and predictable. I fear removing the price cap could lead to dramatic price increases, as I’ve seen on other TLDs, and force me to migrate my site elsewhere. Please consider people in this situation when making your decision. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org PIR Renewal Proposal
by Jason Sloan April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

By creating an approved monopoly through this agreement and allowing PIR to set whatever price they wish for registration would be irresponsible. ICANN must look at other groups to run this registry or require that PIR submit rate hikes larger than 10% to committee for approval with appropriate cost justifications which can be reviewed and approved or denied based on merit. Otherwise I would expect mass movement by organization to a cost controlled domain and a large departure from registrations in the affected domains.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the Cap
by Keck Computer Management April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

You should keep the Cap on .org prices . There is no need for it

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Regarding the org agreement renewal
by Aleksandar Prokopec April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Removal of the price cap on the .org domain (Section 2.10 of the .org renewal agreement) is a terrible idea. The .org domains were always targeted on non-profit organizations, or open source projects. Removing the price cap would potentially create a senseless price increase on those domains - there is no good reason for it. There are plenty of other TLDs out there that can be used as a commodity to make more money. Please keep the price cap on .org domains. Thanks -- Aleksandar Prokopec Principal Researcher Oracle Labs

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to the provisions of the .org agreement
by Antonio Jose Galan April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. 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? “ICANN is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable.” A move like such would not keep the internet stable, and would harm the pubic in the short and long run. Regards, Antonio Galan

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