[Comments-org-renewal-18mar19] Thoughts on the proposed Renewal of .org Registry Agreement

[Adam Corbett]

I an a registrant for a small number of domains.

In the new proposal, ICANN does not seem to recognize the difference
between a legacy extension, created with the support of the US government,
that predates the existence of ICANN and that has millions of existing
users and the brand new extensions that started off with a new set of
rules, in particular no price controls, and no existing registrants. They
have completely different characteristics, history, and ownership
structure. It is not acceptable for ICANN to ignore these differences and
to propose that they be treated the same.

It is not fair to .org domain owners to remove these price caps. Many of
.org websites have been in used for years, and -if price caps are removed-
the cost to renew their domain names may become burdensome; possibly
forcing websites that are important to those registrants or their users to
be closed or moved to new domains (an excessively onerous process).

The Uniform Rapid Suspension policy is too new and untested to apply on
domain names that may be 20 years old or more. With the URS, the domain
names could be taken down in a matter of days with little notice.

ICANN should be doing more to protect owners of .org domain names. Why is
ICANN trying to remove price protections for .org domain owners, so many of
which are non-profits, so that they can be overcharged for their domain
names?
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