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<p>price increases.... and "rights protections mechanisms" never
intended for legacy gTLDs such as .COM, .ORG and .NET. <br>
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<p>Our member -- Electronic Frontier Foundation -- has shared the
dangers of extending the URS (ultra-fast domain name suspension
process) to .ORG registrants in the .ORG contract renewal when the
URS was never intended for the complex evaluation of noncommercial
vs. commercial domain name disputes by the GNSO.<br>
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<p>EFF Council and NCSG member Mitch Stoltz said:</p>
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— <strong>"When non-profit organizations</strong> use brand names
and other commercial trademarks, it's often to call out
corporations for their misdeeds — a classic First
Amendment-protected activity. That means challenges to domain
names in .org need more careful, thorough consideration than URS
can provide. Adding URS to the .org domain puts non-profit
organizations who strive to hold powerful corporations and
governments accountable at risk of losing their domain names,
effectively removing those organizations from the Internet until
they can register a new name and teach the public how to find it.
Losing a domain name means losing search engine placement,
breaking every inbound link to the website, and knocking email and
other vital services offline."
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190806_urs_is_a_bad_fit_for_dot_org_says_eff/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190806_urs_is_a_bad_fit_for_dot_org_says_eff/</a></p>
<p>Issue is still before ICANN and this new turn of events is very
troubling. <br>
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<p>Best, Kathy</p>
<p>On 11/13/2019 1:04 PM, Ayden Férdeline wrote:</p>
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<div>... and when that happens, we really must hold ICANN org to
account to justify its decision to remove price caps.<br>
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<div> On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:38, Stephanie Perrin
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@MAIL.UTORONTO.CA"><stephanie.perrin@MAIL.UTORONTO.CA></a> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69)"> I must say, this casts the
decision to drop price caps for .org in a slightly different
light. I will keep you posted as I learn more.</span><br>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a
href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191113005661/en/Ethos-Capital-Acquire-Public-Interest-Registry-Internet"
title="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191113005661/en/Ethos-Capital-Acquire-Public-Interest-Registry-Internet"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:rgb(149, 79, 114)">https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191113005661/en/Ethos-Capital-Acquire-Public-Interest-Registry-Internet</span></a><br>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Stephanie Perrin<br>
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Kathy Kleiman
President, Domain Name Rights Coalition
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