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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Jean Baptiste Hugo April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

Sir or Madam, I am a .org registrant. 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? Yours faithfully Jean Baptiste Hugo

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Zero Dean April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

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. ⁣Get BlueMail for Android

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Don't hurt nonprofits
by Hunter Kippen April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

I am commenting to ask the ICANN to reconsider removing price controls from the .org domain name. Many local non-profits have shoestring budgets as it currently stands. They use their websites to gather volunteers and generally inform the public about their activity. A non-profit should not be concerned with how they will pay for their website, but rather on how they will best serve their communities. Again, I am urging the ICANN to reconsider. Best, Hunter Kippen

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Jasper April 28, 2019

April 28, 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.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price caps
by Sir Boops April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

Removing the price cap would only make .org more expensive and for users such as myself that operate personal/free services could force me to switch to a corporate owned TLD putting me at their mercy

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Tanner Nielsen April 28, 2019

April 28, 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. -Tanner Nielsen

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep the cap
by Matthew Lennon April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

I am opposed to the idea of .org domain prices being unlimited. They are used by many non-profits which could be priced out of domains they have held for decades. Matthew Lennon

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Restore price increase caps and low registration costs
by Matt Lutze April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

Good day, The Internet grew out of a common goal to have a space for the world to connect and communicate. Being able to build a space on the Internet shouldn’t only be accessible to the wealthy. Removing the price caps encourages and ensures that the cost for creating a space and registering a .org domain will become unaffordable for much of the Internet community. You have a duty to the community first. Please be responsible and restore low price increase caps for .org registrations to keep registration costs affordable. Respectfully, Matthew Lutze

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please retain the price cap
by Dave Lukes April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

To whom it may concern, Many .org registrants are non-profits, charities & other organisations which work on very limited budgets, making it a special case. These organisations are the least able to deal with unexpected price rises. There are plenty of other, commercially oriented, domains for which uncapped prices may be appropriate, allowing registrars to increase their profits, but please consider the special needs of .org. Thank you, Dave Lukes.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Federico klez Culloca April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

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