[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Strong plea from a struggling non-profit org.: continue .org price protection

[Jean]

Dear ICANN directors,

Your proposal to discontinue price protection for the .org domain will
affect many, many non profit groups who struggle to survive in the current
unfriendly business climate for non profits.

I am a director of Ensemble Soleil, a internationally-renowned performing
music ensemble (www.esoleil.org) founded in 1995 with a website built
shortly thereafter. We have been a 501(c)3 charity since 1997, and since we
perform Baroque and Renaissance music on original instruments, our audience
and our pool of performers are spread widely across the US, Canada and some
of our guest artists go back and forth to Europe. The website is a very key
part of our framework, both for concert information and communications. It
would be a severe hardship on our organization to pay higher website fees,
since our financial supporters already bear a heavy burden since corporate
funding dropped sharply after the mid 2000s.

I implore you to reconsider opening the door to high domain fees for the
.org domain since it will effectively destroy the majority of funding for
small organizations such as ours.

Thank you for allowing me to submit this information for your consideration.


Jean S. Twombly
Artistic Director and Treasurer
Ensemble Soleil 
EIN  04-3371033


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