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

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

Feb. 11, 2020

I vote against the price increase for .com registration. As if my vote means to you anything./

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] (no subject)
by nathan smith Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I am opposed to this amendment. This will increase exponentially increase my costs and be a burden on the internet as a whole. Nathan Smith

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price Increases Stifle Innovation
by Jesse Griffin Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

It's no secret that innovation comes "from the edges" and the proposed price increases by this amendment are an attempt to cut the edges off. ICANN should consider reading The Master Switch by Tim Wu to get a better understanding of how these changes will negatively effect global innovation. I am opposed to price increases for domain name registration and renewal. Thank you, Jesse Griffin

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price change
by Don Prue Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Domain rate increase
by Yuliya Rowen Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

As a web designer, I purchase multiple domains per year for projects and I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate is more than fair. This proposed change has corporate greed written all over it and does not support regular consumer. Verisign has no business dictating .com prices.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Customer Care 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. Mattye Denver, Colorado United States

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Amendment 3 Feedback
by Aaron Van Gorp Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

As an entrepreneur with dozens of domains registered, I’m concerned with the proposed amendment 3 changes. It’s also disappointing to see that ICANN would be receiving several million dollars in exchange for it’s support of these proposed changes. This feels much like the actions that politicians in the US take with backroom deals, that aren’t for the benefit of mass of users, but a select few. I don’t support this initiative, without some adjustments and additional clarity of how the funds will be used. AARON VAN GORP Managing Director LucentDigital.co (417) 459-4491 x700

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains.
by Jaswinder Singh Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of USD7.85 is already far more than justified. -- Jaswinder Singh

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

Feb. 11, 2020

I oppose Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement. I believe that allowing wholesale prices for .com domains to rise more than 70% over 12 years will dramatically hurt the internet ecosystem. This rate of increase is far more than the rate of inflation and also far more than Verisign's underlying costs of maintaining the registry could possibly increase by. It will especially hurt small website operators like myself - and will discourage internet users from creating blogs and personal pages. Verisign reported a 69.4% operating margin in Q1 2019, so they clearly do not need the extra revenue from this price hike. ICANN has granted a monopoly over .com to Verisign and ICANN has a duty to every internet user to carefully regulate this monopoly to prevent abuse by Verisign. A policy that allows price increases tracking the rate of inflation (but no higher) may make sense in the future. However, right now, Verisign is already collecting far more from their .com monopoly than any company would be able to in a competitive market [1]. It's simply not right to allow them to raise prices at this time. Mike..... [1] For example, Alphabet, a highly successful player in a very high-margin industry, has an operating margin of around 25%. Verisign's operating margin is over 2.75 times that. http://michaelscepaniak.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Stop making secret deals
by Hannah Rounds Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I am against the price increase for .coms.

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