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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Muhammad Abba Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

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. abbah8540(a)gmail.co Calabar Nigeria

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by sales＠enab.com Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a domainer (I invest in domain names as a business). I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. Sinisa B Midleton, Munster Ireland

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Erkan Kavas Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a registrant of a .com domain name. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. Erkan Kavas Antalya, Antalya Turkey

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Opposition to increases in pricing
by Lewis Sr - Pyrenees Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Sirs / Ma'ams, I write in opposition to the proposed increases in pricing for .com domains, for the following reasons: I don't particularly like the idea of paying $1 per month for my website to a multi-billion dollar company so they can make their wealthy investors a little richer. Verisign, Inc. is a commercial for profit publicly traded company, whose motives are driven by a desire to increase profits for investors, not to serve the public interest. Verisign had a gross profit of over 1,000 million dollars (1 billion) in 2019. Considering there are about 200,000,000 active websites of all kinds world wide, and only a small portion of them are profit making dot com websites. Verisign already makes a massive amount of profit from their relationships with governments and organizations like ICANN. If ICANN needs more money to operate you all can get it from Verisign, they can probably spare a few million from what I understand. In disgust, Lewis Beeler +1-910-260-8350

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by XavierDomains Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a domainer (I invest in domain names as a business). 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. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. Xavier Lemay Gatineau, Quebec Canada

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Arshad Mehmood Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a registrant of a .com domain name. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. This increase is unjust. Anjum Aziz Leipzig, Saxony Germany Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Arshad Mehmood Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a registrant of a .com domain name. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. Anjum Aziz Leipzig, Saxony Germany Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Aman Tibrewal Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a domainer (I invest in domain names as a business). 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. Aman Tibrewal Jharsuguda

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Vote AGAINST Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Brianna Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

This is an unrealistic expectation for small businesses and especially for individuals who use .COM domains. Up until very recently .COM has been the most widely used TLD for the average person, and, on top of that, the costs of other TLDs, including the more newly released ones, have begun at higher rates and usually are intended for more niche industries/sectors, or just simply too expensive for the average person to commit to the yearly cost increases. Additionally, the idea that if a person or business cannot afford these proposed increases, there is an expectation that they will just... change their domain? What about those of us who have had these domains for over 5-10 years and have built a brand or lots of other materials all with these specific domains? We're supposed to let the domain go and let a larger company who can afford the increases take the domain and benefit from the traffic/audience that has already been established? This seems really backwards, and certainly with all these new TLDs at much higher costs, those profits surely can offset the costs of infrastructure changes as ICANN works to improve security and the like. At the very least there needs to be some sort of waiver program for those of us who are individuals/small businesses that cannot expect to be able to afford constant increases, and especially if we use them for non-commercial purposes.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Travis McKee Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a domainer (I invest in domain names as a business). I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. No one other than Verisign wants an increase in .COM prices. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. Verisign is merely the 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. Travis McKee Grapevine, Texas United States

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