Comments of the National Council of Nonprofits on .org price cap removal

[Ayden Férdeline]

If we do not know if they would increase the price, why would we risk it and allow them to potentially increase their prices and to exploit .org registrants? Their costs have gone down over the past few years since migrating to Affilias, and if this agreement went out to bid, I would bet the price cap (if it remained) would go down - not up.

Ayden

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On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 1:34 PM, Amr Elsadr <aelsadr at ICANNPOLICY.NINJA> wrote:

> Strong?! How the world's NFPs spend their money should be no business of ICANN’s at all. Besides…, we don’t know that domain name registration fees would go to these causes if they didn’t go to PIR. We don’t even know that PIR would raise their registration fees at all, if the price cap is removed. They haven’t in the past, even though they’ve had the opportunity to year after year under their current contract.
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> I believe this is rather weak, not strong.
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> Thanks.
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> Amr
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>> On Apr 29, 2019, at 1:19 AM, Ayden Férdeline <icann at FERDELINE.COM> wrote:
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>> A very strong comment has been submitted by the National Council of Nonprofits, which represents 25,000 organizations, opposing the removal of the .org price cap:
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>> https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-org-renewal-18mar19/2019q2/000918.html
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>> Each one-dollar hike in costs per domain would divert more than $10 million from nonprofit missions for the enrichment of the monopoly. By anyone's estimate, this money would be better spent delivering an additional 1,600,000 meals by Meals on Wheels to seniors to help maintain their health, independence and quality of life. Or $10 million could enable nonprofits to provide vision screenings for every two- and three-year-olds in California. Or pay for one million middle school students to attend performances of "Hamilton" or "To Kill a Mockingbird". Nonprofits should not need to choose between paying for a domain name and helping people.
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>> Best wishes,
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>> Ayden Férdeline
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