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[Kathy Kleiman]

price increases.... and "rights protections mechanisms" never intended 
for legacy gTLDs such as .COM, .ORG and .NET.

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.

EFF Council and NCSG member Mitch Stoltz said:

— *"When non-profit organizations* 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."

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190806_urs_is_a_bad_fit_for_dot_org_says_eff/

Issue is still before ICANN and this new turn of events is very troubling.

Best, Kathy

On 11/13/2019 1:04 PM, Ayden Férdeline wrote:

> Price increase on .org domains in 3, 2, 1…
>
> ... and when that happens, we really must hold ICANN org to account to 
> justify its decision to remove price caps.
>
> -- Ayden
>
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:38, Stephanie Perrin 
> <stephanie.perrin at MAIL.UTORONTO.CA> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
>>
>> https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191113005661/en/Ethos-Capital-Acquire-Public-Interest-Registry-Internet
>>
>>
>> Stephanie Perrin
>>
>> NCSG Chair
>>
>>
>
-- 
Kathy Kleiman
President, Domain Name Rights Coalition

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