<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In some parts of the world, $70 is a week's wages. Maybe most registrants can afford to pay more - but the question is why should they have to?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The YMCA has registered over 2,400 .org domain names. Rotary has registered over 2,900 .org domain names. At $70 per domain name, that would be over $168,000 from the YMCA and over $200,000 per year from the Rotary organization going to the .org registry. It's not a large sum of money for those organizations. But they could put that money to better use than shipping it off to a private equity firm. If there was any justification for it, it wouldn't be so bad. But there is no justification for it except that ICANN failed to protect a public resource that was entrusted to it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">There are over a million nonprofits in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world. When you can put your hand into a million pockets, the sums add up pretty quickly. The cash flows over the next few years are worth over $1 billion to Ethos. If they go up 10 fold, then the .org registry would be worth over $10 billion to Ethos.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Either amount is a lot of money. Certainly makes it worth the while of the folks trying to get the deal done to try to use whatever means at their disposal to bend ICANN to their will and to get ICANN to approve the sale.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hard to see how this is in any way in the public interest. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I just don't see how At-Large comes out looking anything but captured and a farce if it fails to oppose "the change of control of .org".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Nat</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 2:05 PM Jonathan Zuck <<a href="mailto:JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org">JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Welcome Bruce! What what would represent "significant?" in this case, a 10 fold increase (which is much more than expected!) would amount to $70. In the context of managing a website, would that be material? I've run 6 non-profits and I'm hard pressed to consider
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 23, 2020 10:53:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Jacqueline Morris' <<a href="mailto:jam@jacquelinemorris.com" target="_blank">jam@jacquelinemorris.com</a>>; 'Bill Jouris' <<a href="mailto:b_jouris@yahoo.com" target="_blank">b_jouris@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'CPWG' <<a href="mailto:cpwg@icann.org" target="_blank">cpwg@icann.org</a>><br>
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<p>I have not responded to any messages from this group in the past but this issue is one that impacts my direct client base.</p>
<p>I am a consultant to mid/large charities and NGOs.</p>
<p>Most have little understanding of the domain structure but all need an affordable and reliable domain name.</p>
<p>Any cost or management obstacles could affect small charities and NGOs from ever growing or existing.</p>
<p>Any price increases that would be significant could stifle the growth of a cause or initiative.</p>
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<p>To that; if I have any vote, it is to oppose the transfer.</p>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Bruce Baughman</p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucebaughman" target="_blank">in/brucebaughman</a></p>
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<p><b>From:</b> CPWG <<a href="mailto:cpwg-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cpwg-bounces@icann.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 23, 2020 1:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bill Jouris <<a href="mailto:b_jouris@yahoo.com" target="_blank">b_jouris@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> CPWG <<a href="mailto:cpwg@icann.org" target="_blank">cpwg@icann.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CPWG] PIR/Ethos</p>
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<p>Rather than "alternative", why not "acceptable"?</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">ICANN makes no objection to the transfer of control of PIR,
<i>once alternative arrangements are in place for the administration of the .org TLD</i>. PIR is ISOC's property, and they can dispose of it as they wish. But administration of .org is not an asset available for sale to novel organizations. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Can we find out how many people in our group favour that "ICANN should withhold consent to PIR’s proposed change of control"?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"></span></p>
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Stopping the sale is not my position, and is not wording that I think should be used. PIR is ISOC’s property, and they’re free to sell PIR to anyone they choose, for any terms they choose.<br>
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What’s of interest is the delegation of the .ORG domain. It was delegated to ISOC under specific conditions, which ISOC unarguably no longer meets, and it was not delegated permanently, it was delegated subject to periodic review. They’ve triggered that review
by their own action. A clear and well-established process and precedent exists, and was exercised on .ORG in 2002. My position is that ICANN should issue an open call for proposals for the delegation of .ORG, as in 2002, use the established multistakeholder
process to review the 2002 criteria and approve them for re-use, or modify them as the community deems suitable given the long-term failure of the last selection, and use the established multistakeholder process to evaluate the proposals relative to the criteria,
selecting the best one, and being very, very clear that it’s not property, and not subject to transfer outside of the open, competitive multistakeholder process.<br>
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