February 2020 - comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20@icann.org

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Outrageous price increase withoutconsulting public
by Gerson Subscribe Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

This is terrible, you shouldnt be conducting this behind closed doorbut instead make it public!!

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Avoid .COM Price Increases
by Ernesto D Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Please do not increase the .COM Price , we all are the right to have accessible prices.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] (no subject)
by Sheina Mendez Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

What is going on ICANN?

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Pricing Change
by Lee McGovern Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

You should be promoting more take up by lowering the price, not raising it. I also am skeptical of the agnosticism of your organization coupled up to others Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM price increase
by Ravi K Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] (no subject)
by Dhruv Manek Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Please do not increase the price of domain

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Public Comment from David Spector
by David Spector Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

To whom it may concern: I am a reasonably intelligent adult, having retired after a 40 year career in software and Web programming. I have worked in companies large and small, including owning my own consulting company. I have attempted to read "THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE .COM REGISTRY AGREEMENT" and find that it uses legal language to such a degree that it is difficult to understand its full effects. However, one thing is clear: it further moves ICANN into alignment with the for-profit objectives of VeriSign, Inc., a Delaware-based corporation well-known for its high prices and poor service. The management of domain names is, in essence, a simple process based on the Domain Name System, which uses a mixture of a few dedicated computers and a very large number of shared, private, and public computers to maintain a simple distributed database of Authoritative Zone records and DNS caches that define the association between IP addresses and human-readable domain names. This basic, low-cost system was extended to become a large system of Domain Name Registries who participate to further increase the cost of maintaining Zone records with very little added functionality beyond what could have been provided directly by ICANN through a public and secure automated interface. In addition, ICANN does nothing to prevent large blocks of IP addresses to be allocated to countries and individuals having criminal or malicious intent. I wish to raise my voice in protest to this Agreement, which appears to allow (and perhaps mandate) price increases of 7% per year for the next 8 years. Instead of prices increasing, they should drop dramatically, and management of the Domain Name System should be transferred to a public agency or other truly nonprofit and economically disinterested organization. Prices should be calculated based on the actual costs to maintain the TLD computers, their Internet connections, and the actual cost of an automated public interface and a small trained human staff for most activities associated with maintaining domain names. Regardless of whether reasonable proposals for reducing the price of domain name management, making the current insecure Domain Name System secure, and eliminating the wasteful Domain Name Registries are adopted, this THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE .COM REGISTRY AGREEMENT should be canceled in its entirety, thus protecting the Web from the self-interested greed and collusion of financial interest of both ICANN and VeriSign, Inc. If this Amendment does go into effect, opposing the interest of all Internet stakeholders including the general public, I hope that legal action will be taken against it. I would contribute what I can afford to such legal prosecution. /s/ David Spector 56 Yale St. Portland, ME 04103-3526 icann(a)springtimesoftware.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Gale Wolfenbarger Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

One more example of what happens when a group does not have enough control on them by an outside agency. When I worked for large corporations it always seemed like ICANN and Verisign were getting away with murder with what they charge for only keeping track of .com registries. But now I am retired and have a very simple website where I show pictures of my family and a few things I have written. Now I am being told that the fee for my URL will be going up by up to 70% in the next 10 years. It is really criminal. Companies are always complaining about too much government regulation. This is a perfect example of why it is necessary. Shame on you. Gale Wolfenbarger

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Stop Price Increase & Reveal ICANN-Verisign Contract to Public
by Jack Kotler Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Hi, The TLD pricing has always been increasing no matter what contract ICANN-Verisign has. Now, making ICANN a promise of $20 million dollars implies an extra cost will be levied to the end users. This is against the Free Internet policy and should be stopped. Further, the entire contract along with a summarized version should be released to the public in order to understand why does ICANN a non-profit organization requires $20 million? Thanks! Jack

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Comments on Proposed .COM amendment
by Paul Kandō Romaine Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Dear ICANN, As a registrant of Namecheap and other registrars, I object strongly to the new proposed .COM amendments to ICANN's agreement with Verisign. First, the price increase leaves vulnerable small businesses and private contractors who rely on their personal websites for bringing business to them. I rely on a personal .com website (paulwromaine.com) for referrals for my small business editing and consulting, and my other personal website for person's interested in my field of books and libraries (bibliowonk.com) Many small artists in niche fields, rely on a personal domain as a brand. This suggested price increase will force many early career (or struggling) artists to abandon their domains, which for many of them is a key part of branding their personal art. Second, it is not clear how the additional funds asked by Verisign (and which ICANN has agreed to) will directly benefit end-users by improving the underlying infrastructure of the domain registry system. I urge ICANN to reconsider this agreement and renegotiate it to favor end-users, and to make sure the final agreement is more transparent. Although I am but a small part of the overall ICANN ecosystem, greater transparency about the uses of the price increases, is better for the entire domain registry system. Thank you for your consideration. *PLEASE NOTE, the ICANN submission form required an installed email client. Since I used gmail's web client, the form did not work properly. I'm pasting the form's data below my signature.* Yours truly, Paul Romaine paul.romaine(a)gmail.com New York, NY <form onsubmit="location='mailto:comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20@icann.org?body= '; return false" enctype="text/plain" class="mail-form" action="mailto: comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20(a)icann.org" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="?"><input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="lLIFP2LIEnY8pwbaT+QBoRJnLBNWv2Tnf5n2M5/X79ijUtWXgxnIssDazOc7trMvKEQ3yTPFXlcwUsOZYYyaNQ=="><label for="Please_acknowledge_the_statement_below_and_click_Continue_to_start_the_email_for_your_comment.">Please acknowledge the statement below and click continue to start the email for your comment.</label><br><input type="checkbox" name="terms_of_services" id="terms_of_services" value="yes" class="signup-checkbox"><label class="signup-checkbox-label" for="terms_of_services"> <abbr title="required" class="">*</abbr> By submitting my personal data, I agree that my personal data will be processed in accordance with the <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</abbr> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href=" https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy">Privacy Policy</a>, and agree to abide by the website <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href=" https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos">Terms of Service</a>.</label><br><input type="submit" name="commit" value="Continue" class="Button"></form>

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