Potential changes in the Domain Industry ICANN is about to renew the .org, .biz, and .info registry contracts with a HUGE loophole to allow each registry to charge different scaled pricing on a per-domain basis and to provide each registry with a presumptive perpetual monopoly. This means your best domains may very soon cost you thousands (or more) per year in renewal fees. We need your help to halt the approval of these contract proposals. Everyone who owns a domain and cares about its value should post a comment TODAY to: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-28jul06.htm Its easy: Just email your comments to each of the three following email addresses: , , and then approve the email links they respond with. The comment period will remain open until 5:00 PM PDT, August 28, 2006. THAT'S TODAY! The comments will be submitted to the ICANN Board of Directors for the Board to consider at its meeting on September 13, 2006. If Registries can set "market prices" for each .biz, .info, .org domain name (ie. $500 or $1 million per year for cars.org or Google.org etc.. ), then ICANN will have to provide Verisign the same terms for .com and .net in 2012. ALL of your businesses could be in serious jeopardy. So we all have a vested interest in this not happening. If you CHOOSE to remain silent the fallout will jeopardize all of our futures. We need your help. Please take a moment to read the comments others have posted, then create one of your own and mail it off. http://forum.icann.org/lists/biz-tld-agreement http://forum.icann.org/lists/info-tld-agreement http://forum.icann.org/lists/org-tld-agreement Below are sample letters that were forwarded to us. They give some good ideas and the consequences of staying silent. Please remember that the deadline is 5pm today. THANK YOU!!
Seems crazy. A valuable domain takes no more effort to manage than a crap one. They need to show how they are affected. In the meantime we all need to lobby and renew for 10 years!
yes theres a potential problem, but if that really happened, people would just transfer their domain to the company that offered it at the cheapest renewal rates. I only see the greedy registrars losing out really. God bless competitive markets and the wheels of capitalism Best wishes, Martin