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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org proposals
by Susie Island Rights April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

.org domain names are typically associated with many non-profits and charities. For some, like Island Rights Initiative price increases would be simply unaffordable. Losing our domain name would undermine our ability to reach out to vulnerable communities across the world to support and protect their human rights. The internet offers new opportunities for grass roots activists to do amazing work globally. Pricing them off the web would be a huge blow for social justice, environmental and human rights movements. Susie Alegre, Founder and Director

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on proposed changes to the .org registry agreement
by Amit Bansod April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: I am a .org 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. I hope you take these comments in consideration. Kind Regards,

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] ORG contract extension
by James Losh April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I am very concerned that this could lead to dramatic price increases for operators of .org domains, completely out of the blue. Surely it is unreasonable not to keep prices broadly in line with those currently experienced? Yours faithfully, James Lish

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Do Not Approve the .Org Agreement Renewal
by Juan Dietert April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

To whom it may concern: 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] Don't increase the price for renewal.
by Bharat Luthra April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please don't increase the price for renewal of the domains.

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

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. 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! -- Jay Martel System Engineer jay.martel(a)glispa.com +49 (0) 30 555 713-218 Glispa GmbH | Berlin Office Stromstr. 11-17 Berlin, Germany, 10551 Managing Director Din Karol-Gavish Registered in Berlin AG Charlottenburg | HRB 114678B ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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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 Mandeep Sidhu April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

I respectfully make the following comments. 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. Regards Mandeep Sidhu

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price of. Org
by Md. Asad-Ur-Rahman Nile April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

Please do not do anything that would increase price of. Org domains drastically. The interest of the people comes first. Amanullah "Typed with fat thumbs"

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

April 25, 2019

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

April 25, 2019

I object against the rate hike. This is totally unacceptable!

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