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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Marty McCall Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear ICANN, I 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. Come on, this is a money grab, pure and simple. Marty McCall Alameda, California United States - Marty

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Dant, Andrew Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, I am strongly opposed to Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement. One of the core reasons why ICANN exists is to promote competition, but this amendment seems to do the exact opposite. Allowing Verisign to operate as a domain registrar will give them too much power to control pricing and shut down competition. If anything policy changes should be made to encourage competitors of Verisign, not to give a company with significant power over domain name pricing even more control. Please reconsider this amendment. Regards, Andrew Dant -- This email, along with any attachments, may contain private, confidential, proprietary copyrighted, and/or legally privileged material. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by reply email and permanently delete this email and any attachments. The contents of this email should not be copied, distributed, or disclosed to any other person. Thank you for your cooperation.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by D Rubene Photo Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

To ICANN owners and management, The closed-door agreement with ICANN and Verisign is unfair to consumers but profitable for both ICANN and Verisign. The 7% annual price increases over 10 years can result in a 70% price increase in .com domain names for no good reason whatsoever other than collusion between ICANN and Verisign. Both of you profit at the expense of the consumer with no logical reasoning to support the increases other than increased profits for both Corporations. This increase would add 70% to the current $7.85 price, which would bring it above $13.40 per domain. What is your justification for these increases, other than increased profitability for yourself and Verisign? Informed consumers would like to know. We understand that it will increase your income by $20 million at the expense of the consumer over only 5 years. Why? A copy of this email has been forwarded to my Congressional Representative. David Rubene David Rubene Photography +1.612.368.4451 rubenephoto(a)gmail.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do Not increase prices of .com domains
by support＠addvalue.vip support＠addvalue.vip Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Apostolis Cheliotis Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I am a registrant of a .com domain name. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. 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. Apostolos Cheliotis Agios I. Renths

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Indika Munaweera Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

This will ultimately be making.COM domains less accessible and more expensive for everybody. Thanks, *Indika Munaweera* Tech Lead - Creative Software +94 112505889 | +94 711878678 | mkindika(a)gmail.com www.about.me/mkindika | Skype: mkindika <https://webapp.wisestamp.com/#> <http://facebook.com/mkindikaa> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/mkindika/> <http://twitter.com/mkindika>

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price Increases
by Tony Turner Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

It is already difficult running a day to day business as it is. This additional burden should not be burdened by any business. It is completely absurd to even think about rate hikes and appears to be nothing short of a money grab. Keep things reasonable where anyone who wants to go into business is not presented with barriers from the very start. Tony

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Opposing Amendment 3
by Marisa Young Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I am writing in opposition to the proposed amendments. Making way for increased pricing on domains will severely hurt small business owners and individuals, while simultaneously allowing larger corporations to buy up domains that have become unaffordable to the regular citizen. This move does not have the public in best interest and I strongly believe domain and hosting costs need to remain low and affordable to the many.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Comment Amendment 3
by Rincon Fernández-Pacheco, Álvaro Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, My name is Alvaro Rincon and I would like to express my opposition to Proposed Amendment 3. Despite there clearly being potential financial gains to be had by raising the registration fee on .com domains, the global DNS registration system should be run primarily as a public concern. The only entities that stand to benefit from the proposed arrangement are verisign itself, at the expense of the public. While price hikes such as this likely won't mean much to the larger business concerns that buy in bulk, it will impact the millions of small, independent businesses and developers that rely on the system as is to make their livelihood. At worst, this could prove yet another point of pressure that convinces a small business to make their online presence exclusively in the Facebook walled garden and eschew the web itself. The web, and global DNS, were envisioned to be run for the public good, and they SHOULD be run for the public good. Deals such as this are an abdication of that mandate; short sighted profit chasing at the expense of all else. Please do not adopt this proposal. Regards Alvaro Rincon Houston, TX 77054 ________________________________ ADVERTENCIA LEGAL Este mensaje va dirigido, de manera exclusiva, a su destinatario y contiene información confidencial y sujeta a secreto profesional, cuya divulgación no está permitida por la ley. En caso de haber recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que, de forma inmediata, nos lo comunique mediante correo electrónico remitido a nuestra atención o a través del teléfono (+34) 91 623 22 00 y proceda a su eliminación, así como a la de cualquier documento adjunto al mismo. El correo electrónico vía Internet no permite asegurar la confidencialidad de los mensajes que se transmiten ni su integridad o correcta recepción. Grupo Sice TyS no asume responsabilidad por estas circunstancias. Si el destinatario de este mensaje no consintiera la utilización del correo electrónico vía Internet y la grabación de los mensajes, rogamos lo ponga en nuestro conocimiento de forma inmediata. En cumplimiento de la normativa de protección de datos, se informa igualmente al destinatario del presente correo electrónico del tratamiento de sus datos por parte de la empresa de Grupo Sice TyS* con fines de contacto y basado en el interés legítimo para el mantenimiento de la relación existente entre remitente y destinatario. Los datos se conservarán mientras se mantenga dicha relación y no se solicite su supresión y, en su caso, durante los plazos legales de aplicación. Los interesados pueden ejercitar sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, portabilidad y la limitación u oposición dirigiéndose a la dirección de nuestras oficinas centrales en Sepulveda, 6, 28108- Alcobendas ( Madrid ), así como a reclamar ante la Autoridad de Control (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos: www.agpd.es) (*puede consultar las empresas que forman parte del Grupo en www.sice.com) Antes de imprimir este correo electrónico piense bien si es necesario hacerlo: El medioambiente es cosa de todos. DISCLAIMER This message is exclusively addressed to the intended recipient and contains confidential information subject to professional secrecy. The disclosure thereof is not permitted by law. If you have received this message by error, please immediately inform us via email or by calling (+34) 91 623 22 00 and delete it as well as any attachments. Internet email cannot ensure absolute confidentiality of the messages sent or their integrity or proper receipt. Sice TyS Group is not liable for these circumstances. If the recipient of this message does not consent to the use of email via the Internet and the recording of the messages, please notify us immediately. Pursuant to data protection regulations, the recipient of this email is also hereby informed that their data will be processed by the Sice TyS Group* company for contact purposes based on a legitimate interest to maintain the relationship between the sender and the recipient. The data will be saved throughout said relationship unless deletion is requested and, as applicable, for the legal periods allowed. Interested parties may exercise their rights of access, rectification, deletion, portability and limitation or opposition by writing to our main offices at Sepúlveda, 6, 28108 - Alcobendas (Madrid) , as well as through a complaint with the Control Authority (Spanish Data Protection Agency: www.agpd.es) (*the companies in the Group may be checked at www.sice.com) Think before printing this email: Caring for the environment is everyone's responsibility.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Cheryl Sternberg Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I am writing to voice my opposition to the Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement. I am a fledgling entrepreneur who is preparing to open her own business this year. As such, I have registered several “.com” web domains for my new business. I am a one-woman online enterprise, and therefore need to keep my overhead costs low. While I would love for my business to eventually expand, it will always be a small one. It will therefore never be able to compete with the likes of the big name tech and retail giants, nor be able to afford to pay the same prices they can for branding and maintaining top-dollar domain name (i.e., “.com”) registration. If the new, more expensive registration pricing were to take effect, I would likely have to buy new (non-.com) web domains, move my entire website, change all of my email addresses, and updated all of my printed and digital promotional materials accordingly, and so forth. Additionally, upon losing my original .com domain registrations, it would be open to other entities purchasing them and taking advantage of any brand recognition that I had already built under their names. This would likely lead to a lot of confusion and loss of customers, business contacts, revenue loss, etc. In the end, the only ones who gain from this situation are Verisign and/or ICANN. Small businesses will be disproportionately affected, while the biggest firms will likely go untouched. Please reconsider this proposal, as small businesses are the bread and butter of economies all around the world, and every penny counts greatly when keeping them in operation. Sincerely, Cheryl Sternberg

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