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

Avinash S avinashmjdhf at gmail.com
Mon Apr 29 16:09:26 UTC 2019


I am a .org registrant.

Legacy gTLDs are fundamentally different from for-profit new gTLDs and
should be treated that way. Legacy TLDs are what the internet was
built on. They are essentially a public trust. They are very different
than new gTLDs which were created, bought and paid for by private
parties. Registrants of these legacy extensions should be entitled to
price predictability & stability.

Advancements in technology should be driving the cost of operating a
registry down, yet prices keep going up? Removing price caps is unfair
to the millions of domain registrants. They will have no price
protections. Every registrant will be at the complete mercy and whims
of the registry. This could result in a transfer of funds from
millions of non-profits to one non-profit, with no benefits to the
domain registrants.

ICANN is supposed to represent a "bottom up, consensus-driven
multistakeholder model". ICANN 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 should be looking out for the .org registrants, in particular
the non-profits. There is no "public benefit" justification to these
changes. It is just a handout to business at the expense of
registrants’ rights and protections. Where are the protections for the
millions of domain registrants that this could effect in a negative
way? These changes would give way too much power to the registry. This
is not acceptable for a "public benefit" organization that exists to
represent many stakeholders.



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