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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Objection to price increases
by Douglas Waldruff Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

I am raising my objection to the types and amounts of increase proposed by ICANN. This will create obstacles for many users and prospective users. Making these deals behind closed doors is also unacceptable. Thank you for listening to my concerns!...Douglas Waldruff Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Against
by Renee R Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

I'm against this ammendment. The .com should be fairly priced and available for non-corporate individuals to purchase as needed.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Keep pricing controls in tact
by Bessie Kaine Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

I've been in the web building business for over 20 years and I'm concerned about your proposed changes to. COM pricing. We need a much better way to control the demand of. COM names than drastically increasing it's pricing over the next 10 years. I do not agree with Verisign being allowed to become a domain name registrar. Please release more information about this proposed $20 million dollar deal to the public. "This result is that the company that controls almost 80% of the registrar pricing for domain names will compete directly with all domain registrars, maximizing its control of domain name pricing to the detriment of other competing registrars. While this might result in lower prices to consumers, fewer registrars will harm competition, choice, and domain name services. - Name cheap CEO Richard Kirkendall" Thank you for your consideration. -- <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bessie Kaine</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mobile: <a dir="ltr" href="tel:760-289-5163" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">760-289-5163</a> Skype: bessie.kaine Social: <a href=" http://about.me/MissBess" target="_blank">http://about.me/MissBess</a> </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; 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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I oppose amendment 3
by Mitchell Harris Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

As an owner of a few .com domains, I’d like to express my opposition to the proposed amendment 3. The internet is supposed to be a place where anyone can start up a business and compete. Increased pricing for .com domains raises the bar for entry and decreases access to those domains, reducing competition, and ultimately hurting the free market. Similarly, the provision allowing for Verisign to operate as a registrar would open the door for a whole host of anti-consumer practices.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Don't allow excessive .com price increases!
by Shaun Steenkamp Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

Dear ICANN, My understanding is that under the new scheme: > Verisign will be allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. After a two year “freeze”, Verisign can increase prices by 7% annually during 2026-2029, then another two year “freeze”. This cycle will continue, meaning that within 10 years, .COM domains could cost approximately 70% more than the current wholesale price of $7.85 — and the sky is the limit. Source: https://www.namecheap.com/blog/icann-allows-com-price-increases-gets-more-m… Speaking as an individual who privately owns a few .COM domains, out of the hundreds of millions of .COM domains currently registered, these proposed changes would make it much harder for private individuals to renew their own domains. The thing that makes this especially bad is that the price increases could force people out of domains that they have been using for decades. As a student myself I know that I could not afford to register and annually renew a .COM domain name under this new scheme, and I am worried that I might loose the domains that I already have registered. Please do not make this change. I ask that you maintain the pricing cap. Yours faithfully, S. Steenkamp PhD Student Department of Computer Science University of Cambridge

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com price changes
by Jim Sells, Sagebrush Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

I strongly object to the ICANN secret agreement with Verisign to allow .COM price increases in the next few years, and to allow Verisign to act as a registrar. With automation and years of experience, TLD registration prices should be going down, not up. This, combined with ICANN's recent moves on the .ORG domain pricing policy, shows that ICANN is moving in the wrong direction and does not represent the best interests of the Internet community. best regards, Jim Sells

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] not happy obviously... every price increase makes a customer unhappy
by Calin Damian Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

how you/ ICANN will spend the money you get from this deal? who will ensure that the funds are properly spent on domain infrastructure? Călin Damian Digital mPower Rider CEO calin(a)temperfield.com www.temperfield.com Mobile: +40 720 555 811 75 Poligrafiei Bd., Bucharest, Romania

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] ICANN proposed price increase
by Crome Yellow Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

I oppose the proposed price increase. Quite simply - everything related to the internet and technology in general has gone down over the years. Domain hosting costs a fraction of what it did before. Domain registration renewals too have dropped over the past twenty five years So why should domain registrations now suddenly increase? What is the justification? Although just a few pennies these add up to unnecessary costs for domain holders, and needless extra profits for ICANN. Crome Yellow Los Angeles, CA

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] BS
by Steven Wassmansdorf Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

This does nothing “to preserve and enhance the security and stability of the Internet or the .COM top-level domain.” Nothing. This is a money grab, plain and simple, against the spirit of the creation of the internet, that will negatively affect people around the world. This amendment is probably due to the fact that people and companies are moving away from equally pointless certificate authorities and those companies are losing money because of it, as they should, because there has never been a good reason for them either.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] It would not be good to raise prices on .COM domains
by Trevor Nguyen Feb. 14, 2020

Feb. 14, 2020

It make the internet more egalitarian and not everyone has a lot of money to spend on a domain name.

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