Perhatian Pemegang .info .org .biz

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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/announc...t-2-28jul06.htm

Its easy: Just email your comments to each of the three following

email addresses:

[email protected],

[email protected],

[email protected]

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!!

The Parked.com Team

Sample #1

To the ICANN Board,

The proposed TLD Registry Renewal Contracts for .info, .biz, and .org

domains have a seriously flawed component whereby a Registry will be

able to set arbitrary rates without price caps at whatever the market

will bear. This will create a financially devastating impact on the

business models of millions of domain and web site owners worldwide.

The impact will be especially damaging to .org and .info domain

owners and site operators who for the most part use .org and .info

domains for non-profit, charitable organizations, and educational

purposes.

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested into the core

domain name infrastructure of the Internet with the secured

expectation that acquiring, owning and maintaining domains would

always be affordable and make economic sense for a long term

investment.

To enable and facilitate a way for registry's to financially exploit

and gouge the marketplace would not only be a business tragedy, but

it goes against the grain of all the base principles upon which the

Internet was conceived. It would certainly deter new entrepreneurs

from considering venturing onto the Net if there is no certainty what

their site's URL location will be costing them each year they renew.

And the vast multitude of current domain owners and web site

operators would close up shop if their costs of doing business

skyrocketed on every domain they own.

Even more importantly, this flaw would give an unfair economic

advantage to individuals and corporations who have substantial

capital resources who could outbid less fortunate and startup

entrepreneurs with limited capital.

And inevitably, there would be a tidal wave of costly and time

consuming lawsuits and litigation that ICANN itself would have to

deal with from the millions of impacted domain owners.

Thus, I respectfully request that you reconsider and reconstruct the

contracts and remove this no price caps clause completely.

Sample #2

I wish to express my profound concern that the proposed registry

agreements for .org, .biz and .info do not prohibit predatory price

rises by the registries. ICANN was entirely right to object to

Verisign's SiteFinder service, and for all the right reasons, but

appears not to have learned the obvious lesson: that registries can

be motivated to do things that are not in registrants' interests.

Given that reality, removal of price caps is likely to result in

anticompetitive practices that seriously impact internet

stakeholders. I hope that you will reconsider this aspect of the

agreements.

Sample #3

In permitting even the theoretical hiking of fees for domain name

renewals, ICANN is threatening nothing less than the democratic

nature of the Internet. As an individual, I have been using a .org

domain for some years for a political and social blog website. The

relatively low cost of renewing my domain name and hosting the site

is extremely important to me. Operating such a site now feels like an

extension of my free speech rights! I am counting on you not to do

anything to erode that. Thank you.

Sample #4

As a small business operator, with substantial goodwill invested in

our domain names, I wish to express my strong opposition to the

lifting of price controls. One of ICANN's core principles is the

encouragement of competition at both the registry and registrar

levels. Such competition is incompatible with the kind of

unrestricted monopoly that these proposed agreements would create. I

therefore urge the board to reject the agreements.

aku kurang arif perbezaan waktu antarabangsa.. rasa2nya tamat 5.00 pagi waktu Malaysia.

Cara2:

1. Pilih sample 1 - 4, atau karang ayat dalam bahasa Inggeris.

2. Hantar ke

[email protected],

[email protected],

[email protected]

3. tunggu reply daripada ketiga-tiga email

4. ikut arahan dalam email tersebut. (lebih kurang tiga step kecil disini: 1-klik link, 2-buang sedikit error pada alamat, 3-klik submit button)

JIKA perkara ini diluluskan, tidak mustahil harga .com juga akan naik.

putera.com ni pon mungkin bleh naik rege ntuk renew dalam ratus-ratus (aku pasti ada orang mahu )

jadik.. samalah kita menyatakan bantahan.. yeeha!

//halamak.. macam dah lepas tempoh.. tapi aku vote bleh lagi.. apa2pon.. cubalah, tak rugi...