[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Comment on the proposed renewal of the .org registry agreement

[jason mceachen]

Dear ICANN,

I am a domain name registrant for many organizations, many are
non-profits with limited to anemic budgets.

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!

You can do better than this, I believe in you! :)

--Jason


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