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

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by Karl Hamilton April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

Dear sir/madam. I am opposed to the raising of prices for .org domains. We are captive customers and you know this. Ref: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/org-renewal-2019-03-18-en, specifically * Pricing for Domain Name Registrations and Registry Services (Section 2.10 of the .org renewal agreement): In alignment with the base registry agreement, the price cap provisions in the current .org agreement, which limited the price of registrations and allowable price increases for registrations, are removed from the .org renewal agreement. This provision would allow the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to increase the wholesale price of .org domains by any amount it desires. There is already a 10% annual increase provision in place, which is plenty of room for PIR. I vehemently oppose your proposal. Regards, Karl Hamilton

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please do not let .org process go unchecked
by Randy C. Klug April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

I support many non-profit organizations and a price change would be out of their budget. Randy

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please don't remove caps for domain names
by Nenad Todorovic April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

To whom it may concern, Please do not remove caps for domain names! It will create a fertile field for what is basically blackmailing - domain name is too much important fot business, and they will have to pay a lot to keep the name for themselves. Please! Best regards, Nenad Todorović

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please don't remove caps
by Nenad Todorović April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019

To whom it may concern, Please do not remove caps for domain names! It will create a fertile field for what is basically blackmailing - domain name is too much important fot business, and they will have to pay a lot to keep the name for themselves. Please! Best regards, Nenad Todorović

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

April 28, 2019

Comments on Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement I don’t see what benefit removing the 10% cap on annual prices increases charged to owners of .ORG domains provides. 10% is a generous allowance. Unlike the newer GTLDs .org domains have been around for decades and many owners have established businesses around their domain leaving them with difficult choices should the prices rises become unaffordable. The registrar will have a monopoly over these customers and should not be allowed to exploit it. 10% is a generous allowance that allows them to make a substantial profit and accommodate reasonable increases in the cost of doing business year-on-year. Customers of the newer GLTDs are aware that they may be subject arbitrary annual prices increases since the inception of these domains and can make provisions for this. Yours sincerely, Ben Lamb.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by miniBill 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.

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

April 28, 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. Sincerely Jevon Wright

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

April 28, 2019

Are you seriously considering allowing PIR to set any price it likes for .org domains? .org domains are not often used by commercial organisations, this just gives PIR the ability to mercilessly milk those least able to pay. It does not promote an inclusive internet and will stifle it's expansion beyond the corporate sphere. Please don't do this.

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

April 28, 2019

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. 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?

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

April 28, 2019

Dear Madam/Sir, 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? Greetings, Yano

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