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

[Helmut]

I am a .org registrant.

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!

Registries know very well that many registrants have invested an 
enormous amount of time and funds to build their web presence. They 
cannot just switch to a different registry or gTLD and would completely 
be at the mercy of the registry.

At the very least, existing registrants need to be grandfathered and 
price caps need to be kept in place for them.

ICANN appears to be entirely catering to registries by removing price caps.

ICANN should stand up for the public interest and registrants!

Regards,

Helmut Sachs


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