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

[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org price increase
by Brian Hurley April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I oppose removing price caps on .org domain. Price increases should be limited to the rate of inflation, unless justified by the need to upgrade infrastructure. Regards, Brian Hurley (owner of a .org domain)

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] ICANN’s contract with Public Interest Registry
by Stephen Klautky April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Removing the price controls will adversely affect access to domains. There is a significant risk that some domains will be out of reach for the public. I would vote to keep the contract as is. Thank you S. Klautky

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Luis Gutierrez April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hi, I think the ORG domain must be kept in check regarding price hikes. There are many non for profits who will be affected for this change increasing the prices. Thank you, Luis Gutierrez

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Keep .Org Prices Low
by Joseph Dante Mirarchi April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I have had my .org domain name for two decades and use it noncommercially. My friends and family know me by my .org address. Raising prices on .org domains would impose a significant burden on me for no good reason. Please keep .org prices low. Joseph D. Mirarchi

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Rasmus Praestholm April 27, 2019

April 27, 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. Rasmus 'Cervator' Praestholm Co-Founder and Lead, The Terasology Foundation https://terasology.org/

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org changes
by Jeff Coward April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I feel like the new changes being made are going to hurt non-profits who already don’t usually have large budgets and have far more important things they really need to spend money on than just the name for their website. We don’t need to surpass web standards for today’s web domains when we are talking about their price. They need to be accessible cost-wise to all persons from all situations. - Jeff Self-Employed Web Designer & Online Marketer Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Tony Thiry April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hello, I ask that you do not remove the price caps of .org, .info and .biz top level domains. Removing caps never helps the consumer as you can see with cable television. Although lower prices through compotation is promised it never comes to fruition. Please continue with the 10% increase, keep the cap. Regards, Anthony Thiry

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Form Post from Firefox
by Damon Hart-Davis April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

utf8=✓ authenticity_token=nkwL9P7xaUNFlzEiRu+7B6PJJXbmG5SpK0ydkisb+2XLAlJJ14K4h8BFbqpbceAfvWx9c3G4haNBSLYGPF9/OQ== terms_of_services=yes commit=Continue I have used a particular .org for my family for many years that is now relatively well known and I don’t wish to be forced to move and have many many links broken or else be extorted into paying potentially vastly inflated rates to retain it. Damon Hart-Davis

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Against Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Rob Eden April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hello - I would like to state that I am AGAINST the proposed .org renewal agreement which would allow unbounded price increases. This would be extremely rife for abuse and seems completely unwarranted. Rob Eden

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement
by Vladimir Jimenez April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

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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