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Re: [Link posting] Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names

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Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
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> <URL:https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/26/dot_org_price_increases/>
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>> The organization that oversees the domain name system, ICANN, has 
>> proposed an end to price caps on one of the internet's most popular 
>> extensions ? .org ? and many in the internet industry are unhappy 
>> about it.

This might discourage many smaller not-for-profit organisations that
traditionally use .org domains. I'd have thought it would be the last
TLD that they'd do this to if they wanted to mess with the current
pricing.

>> [snip]
>> In its proposed contract change, ICANN has used the addition of all
>> these new top-level domains to argue for removing price caps. "This
>> change will not only allow the .org renewal agreement to better
>> conform with the base registry agreement, but also takes into
>> consideration the maturation of the domain name market and the goal
>> of treating the Registry Operator equitably with registry operators
>> of new gTLDs and other legacy gTLDs utilizing the base registry
>> agreement," the organization explains in its public comment
>> explanation.

ICANN also note that:
"Protections for existing registrants will remain in place, in line
 with the base registry agreement."

I'm not going to spend a day reading through all of it, but it looks
like these protections may be described in section 2.10 of the base
registry agreement ("Pricing for Registry Services"):
http://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/agreement-approved-31jul17-en.html#article2.10

Nothing there to stop domain name registrars from hiking the fees
charged to existing customers, but at least they have to do it
equally to everyone.

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> [1] <URL:https://www.namecheap.com/blog/keep-domain-prices-in-check/>
> [2] <URL:https://www.icann.org/public-comments/org-renewal-2019-03-18-en>

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[Link posting] Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-04-26 23:36 +0100
  Re: [Link posting] Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-27 00:31 +0000
  Re: [Link posting] Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-04-27 13:55 +1000

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