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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Limit increase to 10%
by Christine Esposito April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

To whom it may concern: Please retain the allowable 10% per year increase in wholesale price of .org domains. Please do not let Public Interest Registry (PIR) set whatever price it wants upon extension of its contract, which could mean exorbitant price increases. My understanding is that registrars would need to recupe their increased expenses by spreading them across various domain types. As a small business owner, I cannot afford such increases, which would mean losing my websites. Without them, I am severely hampered in my ability to gain new customers and sustain my business. Very concerned about the widespread negative impact of such a change, Christine Esposito

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Slade Michalec April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am a domain name 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] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Carter, Ronald R April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am opposed to this. As a legacy platform I would like to see continued price caps to stay in place, If they want a newer domain style that is up to them but legacy systems should be protected from price gouging Ronald Carter | Specialist Technician, eduSTAR.TSS |Information Management and Technology Division Department of Education and Training M: 0414 157 221 E: carter.ronald.r(a)edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:carter.ronald.r@edumail.vic.gov.au> W: www.education.vic.gov.au<http://www.education.vic.gov.au> [cid:image001.jpg@01D309FF.2DA14310] IMPORTANT - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please contact us and delete all copies. Before opening or using attachments check them for viruses and defects. Regardless of any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not, resulting directly or indirectly from the use of any attached files our liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. Any representations or opinions expressed are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of the Department of Education and Training.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the price cap
by Elijah Gould April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Part of the brilliance of the Internet is it’s open and accessible to all - those in the know are quite aware of ICANN’s penchant for vacuuming up cash like its going out of fashion, but price hikes like this only serve to line the pockets of ICANN, rather than serving the internet as a whole.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price cap
by Naomi Welsh April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

please continue to enforce a price cap on domain names for nonprofit organizations - our identity is important and most of us do not have the budget to pay large amounts of money to maintain a site name. Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by John Laurence Poole April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Whom are you serving? The public or an industry which hope to make greater profit by being the middleman. Keep letting prices go up and you may find your organization displaced once people become wise enough to understand how little it takes. 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’. 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! -- John L. Poole 707-812-1323 jlpoole56(a)gmail.com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Nikhil VJ April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

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. Regards Nikhil VJ, India

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Haarm-Pieter Duiker April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am a .org registrant (not-for-profit) for several organizations. 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? Thank you for considering my sentiment, HP Duiker

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .ORG Comment
by ????? ?????? ??????? April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Removing the price ceiling from a domain TLD is like making real estate unaffordable for the masses. The spinoff effect is that non-profit organizations could find themselves at the mercy of thoughtless merchants who want to monopolize the internet. Please make it better for us all and allow the price ceiling to remain in-tact. Thank you.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Avijit Roy April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

I am a .org registrant (not-for-profit). 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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