[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] I object to the URS .org renewal proposal

[Matthew Henry]

I respectfully make the following comments.

I am a .org registrant.

I've read about a lot of bad decisions under the UDRP. The URS seems even
worse. I heard the URS is very new and is being reviewed now to see if it
is working properly. It is too soon to include an untested policy on .org
domains where for a few hundred dollars anyone could try to shut down
someone else's website.

Telling the .org registry that it can charge any price it wants for
renewing a domain name is a terrible idea. Why would you allow them to set
a crazy high price? They could try to force the domain owners to pay a very
high price each year to renew their domain name, and if the domain owner
either won't or can't, then the .org registry could take away their domain
name, set a high registration price on it, and then try to find someone
else who is willing to pay a high price for it. This is very unfair to long
time .org domain owners who may see their prices raised sky high for no
reason.

I think you should pay a little more attention to what is good for the
owners of .org domain names. The registries are doing fine. They don't need
your help as they are already making plenty of money.
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