[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on Proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement

[Dmitry Lanin]

Hello ICANN,

I've heard a new on plans to remove price caps for .org

Here is the explanation I read:
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In 2012, ICANN started accepting applications to operate “new“ top level domains.
Any company could apply to create alternatives to .com on the right of the dot.
That’s where domains like .guru, .money and .xyz came from.

The contracts for these new domains are different than for older domains.
ICANN didn’t impose any price restrictions on the new domains.
After all, the companies that applied for the domains put their own money at risk.

ICANN believes that the contracts to run older TLDs like .org should be the same
as those for running new top level domain names.
This ignores the long history of these legacy top level domain names and how
the contracts to run the registries were awarded.
Whereas new top level domain companies risked their own money to introduce new domains,
the registries running .org, .biz, etc. are merely stewards for what should
be considered a resource that belongs to the web.
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I believe removing price caps is not good 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.


Kind regards,
Dmitry