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So, here is my comment.
<div class="">Just to be clear, I am not submitting any “official” comment, but would like to point out a couple of elements that have been touched in this discussion.</div>
<div class="">As disclosure, but you all probably know that, I am a member of the PIR Board and a member of the EURALO Board, so my point of view might well be affected by these roles I play. However, I would like to speak in my capacity of domain registrant.</div>
<div class="">I do own several domain names, all of them under .org or .eu. I am not at all afraid about potential raise of price of neither, because in both cases I do believe that these names are managed by registries that are responsible and are not going
to do things that I would qualify as “silly”, like proceed with an exceptional raise od price. In the case of PIR, I would like to point out that the registry had the possibility, already under the current contract, to raise prices yearly - but has done it
only in a small number of cases. Every time there has been a raise the matter has been discussed thoroughly by the Board, who has analysed the pros and cons, taking into account the potential benefits, the impact on the market, the impact on the image of the
company. I don’t understand what would let us assume that, just because the new contract will give this possibility, PIR would change the behaviour it had over years and proceed to unmotivated raises, moreover if of unreasonable amount. I personally believe
that to consider this as a possibility is disingenuous to say the least.</div>
<div class="">A second point is the effect of the raise of the price of a .org domain name on NGOs and small non-profits. Do we really think that for creating and maintaining an Internet presence the yearly fee for a domain name plays a relevant role?</div>
<div class="">The other criticism I have heard is about feeding ISOC - for instance, it has been said that more money to ISOC has resulted in increase in staff. This is probably true, but what really matters is what ISOC does for the Internet community - and
in particular for underserved regions or users. A large amount of money goes to finance the IETF: my question is whether folks would prefer to have less funding to the IETF and therefore obliging the standardisation body to rely on contribution by the industry
to develop standards? Would that really be better than having a couple of bucks of contribution by NGOs on their domain name - which, incidentally, is a rounding error in terms of cost for the IT infrastructure - and this even assuming that PIR would raise
the price in the future, which is not at all a sure thing? Another question that I would ask is whether people know about projects, financed by ISOC, like the Tusheti Project that has brought the internet in a region in Georgia that was isolated from the rest
of the country because of the difficulty of connecting it? Again, this is possible because some of the money that registrants pay for a .org domain name goes to financing projects like these. Of course, to coordinate more activities requires more staff. So
what?</div>
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<div class="">Last but not least, my personal opinion is that moving to a situation where the whole gTLD galaxy ends up in having the same contract provisions would be a good thing in a globalized market. I am much more worried about the registries that are
not subject to common rules, like ccTLDs, who can for instance use practices banned by SSAC like the wildcard, rather than having a handful of “legacy” TLDs compliant with the contract that everybody else has. But, as I said, this is just my personal opinion
as an Internet user and domain name registrant.</div>
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<div class="">Best regards,</div>
<div class="">Roberto</div>
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<div class="">On 26.04.2019, at 16:17, Maureen Hilyard <<a href="mailto:maureen.hilyard@gmail.com" class="">maureen.hilyard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, 1:51 AM Roberto Gaetano, <<a href="mailto:roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com" class="">roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Hi Jacqueline, and all.
<div class="">I would love to be able to comply with your request. I do indeed have my own opinion, and in the coming weekend - I am now under pressure for other things - I will express it.</div>
<div class="">However, as many of you know, the PIR Board has passed a motion to remove me as Board Chair in summer 2018, so I am under the impression that I am not well positioned to act as “speaker" for the PIR Board.</div>
<div class="">This said, I promise to speak up, with the caveat that I will comment on the content of the agreement and the impact (from my point of view) on users and non-for-profit organization, not on anything else.</div>
<div class="">Cheers,</div>
<div class="">Roberto</div>
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<div class="">On 26.04.2019, at 12:56, Jacqueline Morris <<a href="mailto:jam@jacquelinemorris.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">jam@jacquelinemorris.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Maureen, well said. </div>
<div dir="auto" class="">I would love to hear from the PIR Board as to their take on this. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 3:48 PM Maureen Hilyard <<a href="mailto:maureen.hilyard@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">maureen.hilyard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">I am against any price changes being allowed for legacy domains and I know that the DotAsia Board hasn't authorised any price hikes and we don't have a cap. The recent suggestions of price caps have provided focus on these so that there
is a little bit of scaremongering (or "raising awareness" as George prefers to call it) going on I suspect.
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<div class=""> .org is used by NGOs who would be sorely affected if the cost of the domain rose significantly. Interestingly Im on the PIR Advisory Committee and we haven't been notified by the PIR Board of the implications are of a price cap for .org or
what their intentions are.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 6:17 AM Marita Moll <<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Further to our discussions this week re: renewal of .org registry with removal of price cap -- it appears that there is a well organized campaign going on out there to scare people about potential
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<p class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">See blog below:</font></p>
<a href="https://www.namecheap.com/blog/keep-domain-prices-in-check/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Service_DomPriceIncrease_20190425" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.namecheap.com/blog/keep-domain-prices-in-check/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Service_DomPriceIncrease_20190425</a>
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