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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price increases for .com domains
by luthersites＠luthersites.net Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Please stop making the internet expensive! While most of my clients are .org users, I do have a handful of .com users. As small organizations or companies, they need my internet hosting and domain name fees to be minimal. I generally do not charge an additional fee for the domain name but include it in the subscription price. However, it becomes very difficult for me to keep my prices low and competitive with the "big box" web providers and still make enough money to justify my continuing to offer my hosting services. Rather than changing or increasing prices for the .coms or giving Verisign the opportunity to increase prices, you ought to be lowering prices across the board so that more people can have websites, make money, and have fun doing it. Please don't let the huge multi-billion dollar companies put the rest of us out of business! Keep domain prices low! Thank you.

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

Feb. 10, 2020

am a registrant of a .com domain name. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry - it has no business dictating the price. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. Regards Stuart Cordery

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed changes
by Monica Sadler Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

To Whom It May Concern: To say that I am disturbed is an understatement. It will be very difficult for me to maintain your price increases that are upcoming. This feels like I’m being manipulated with no alternative. While I can appreciate you’re running a business, the substantial change would impact me and millions of other small businesses tremendously and is ultimately unfair. You should have consulted those of us who are your customers first and come up with a more reasonable price increase. Your proposal is absurd and frankly, unacceptable. Respectfully, Monica Sadler

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] price increase without clear direction is wrong
by Cybil Solyn Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

There doesn't seem to be a clear reason for this increase. If there was a proper roadmap of reasons for costs it would make me understand this increase more. This seems like highway robbery.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I object to the potential .com price increase
by Ziyuan Yao Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Dear ICANN, I object to the potential .com price increase simply because it would hurt small businesses like shareware authors like me. Regards, Ziyuan Yao

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

Feb. 10, 2020

This will hurt small businesses that already have a hard time buying domains that aren't taken by robots and sold for thousands more than they normally cost. ⁣Best regards, John Moreau

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

Feb. 10, 2020

Please undo this amendment. It will make it very difficult for individuals to have their own websites in the future. I am just a grad student. Price increases will make it impossible for students who just want to have their own website for publicity or similar reason to renew them. Thank you, Viktor

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] dot com price increase
by Chris Kitchen Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

To whom it may concern: I don’t think it is right that .com domain name prices should be raised 8 out of the next 10 years - at rates that are not known to the public. These price increases will hurt small businesses and individuals that already own .com domain names. It seems that the two major beneficiaries will be two companies: ICANN and VERISIGN which are the same organizations that made this deal behind closed doors. Please stop making deals behind closed doors and keep .com domain names affordable for everybody - not just large corporations that can afford to pay exorbitant fees. Thanks, Chris

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

Feb. 10, 2020

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] PLEASE KEEP .COM PRICES LOW
by Dante Salvati Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Hello, I would like to see .Com prices stay low and further clarify and oversight for how any projects would utilize the proposed $20M in the public interest. Thank you, Dante

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