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

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

April 27, 2019

I am a domain name 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. 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 Plexiscore April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

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!

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Opposed to uncapped price increases
by Mike Kowal April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I am opposed to uncapped price increases.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] (no subject)
by Mr Tommi Pham April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

This is utter rubbish. If theses changes are to occur, then .org can get stuffed! Will be changing our domain back to .com

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] .org fee changes
by John Sawyer April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

To whom it may concern: Please maintain the current cap on price increases for .org domain names. Thank you, John Sawyer -- John Sawyer The Small Business Website Guy https://thesmallbusinesswebsiteguy.com <http://thesmallbusinesswebsiteguy.com> Web site services for people who would rather run their business than mess with their web site! john@ <john(a)chonresources.com>thesmallbusinesswebsiteguy.com (610) 813-2018

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Price cap comment
by Ryan Blakeley April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Please don’t remove the price cap on .org domains (and others you’re considering). That seems like a rent-seeking behavior, classically destructive to the economy as a whole. Sites using .org domains typically are more charitable or altruistic groups. Please don’t undercut their ability to operate by jacking up prices for a service which provides next to nothing - it’s a parking spot. Sent from my iPhone

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

April 27, 2019

The company that I work for is a .org registrant and I am against the proposed changes to the registry agreement. ICANN seems to be ignoring the differences between legacy extensions that were created with the support of the US government, predate the existence of ICANN and have millions of existing users versus the brand new extensions which were created, bought and paid for by private interests and 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 deliberately disregard these differences and to propose that they be treated the same. Additionally, 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 current domain registrants. They will have no price protections. Every registrant will be at the complete mercy and whims of the registry. .Org has been working just fine for decades where the prices maybe go up a little bit each year (and already allowed at rate that is far above inflation). Finally, 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’. This procedural bypass is completely unacceptable. ICANN appears to be catering to registries by removing price caps and to the trademark/IP lobby on the UDRP/URS side. ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants! Sincerely, David Riordan Reflex Publishing, Inc.

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] No Price Increase
by Kelly April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Hello Please do not lift the price cap on the propose TTL domain--.org, .biz etc. Winsett Kelly -- http://www.VentureHomeBusiness.com http://allsolutionsnetwork.com/cgi-bin/d.cgi/WK59651/resourcecenter.htm

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Please don't remove wholesale price caps for .org
by Dave Cortright April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

.org domains are generally used by non-profits so cost is definitely a concern. By removing price increase caps, large price increases will end up cutting into program funding by so many orgs. And in fact it may drive non-profits to switch over to alternate domains. Please don't make a capricious change that could significantly change the economics of .org domain names. Thanks, ·Dave

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[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] <no subject>
by Michelson, David Allen April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

I am the director of a non-profit research project with a registered .org domain. As the use of .org TLDs is common to non-profits which serve a social good but with limited resources I am opposed to the change to ICANN regulations which would remove “the price cap provisions in the current .org agreement”. Such as change would significantly harm the ability of non-profit organizations to use .org domains which has long been an established practice. Sincerely, David A. Michelson, Ph.D.

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