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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Ammendment
by Sylvia Bressel Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

This is so typical: show the money and see the bad: there is no need to agree to an unlimited price raising over decades, burden on our shoulders, the users! As many other said: not all .coms are billion dollar businesses, a good portion are self-employed and small businesses. And its even more questionable to do this in secret without letting your already registered users and buyers know about - I heard today the first time and in 3 days the comment section will be closed!! So you want to keep us quiet, right? FORGET ABOUT!!

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I do not agree
by mustapha ait el haj Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

This increase is not fair, the re-seller are already buying all available .com domains and Now they have an extra reason to increase the prices over and over again

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

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear ICANN Team I strongly oppose the Proposed Amendment 3 to the.COM Registry Agreement on increasing the price of .com domain TLDs. Thanks -- Best Regards, Abuzar Tariq

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Disgusted at potential price rise
by Daniel Neville Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I’m disgusted that the price of domains would go up as a result of doing work with Verizon

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] dear icann
by Alex Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

eat shit and die

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Abolish ICANN and Break it to distributed non-centralized orgs throughout world.
by jitendra shah Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Addition to my former mail. I strongly believe that ICANN is failing to respect and maintain the freedom of internet, I would prefer an alternate Distributed authority which has no centralized control with any government, All distributed nodes must be ran by non-profit anonymous donation backed organizations with strong community driven hierarchy. So none can directly influence his/her position directly in organization by money, lobbying or government support. **************ICANN Should be broken and Monopoly must not exist.************ I use the Internet but I am not a .com registrant. Surat, Gujarat India

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

Feb. 11, 2020

I totally oppose to the raising of .com prices. It makes absolutely no sense. If anything, technology costs are decreasing. Verisign and ICaan have simply seen an 'opportunity' to capitalize on the current market in domains and should NOT be allowed!!! Regards NB

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Keep price reasonable versus rising popularity of alternatives
by k00nq2+9vl7srqckdarw＠guerrillamail.com Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear ICANN, Verisign, I am against the proposed price inflation of the TLD .COM. In short: keep .COM price inflation reasonable for all parties, especially for your customers. Read the many good arguments in all the threads posted. If there is any reason to raise prices, such reasons need to be clarified towards customers and again, needs to be reasonable. However, keeping price inflation in check concerning the .COM TLD (or any gTLD and ccTLD for that matter) is also in your, the provider's, best interest. The more discontent customers get, to more reason you give them to create and use alternatives, which could be a serious threat to your business model in the long run. Alternatives already exist, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root and more are being researched, e.g. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8291986 . Thank you for your consideration, Ben Hup --------------------- In reaction to: What's happening? Last month, ICANN, the organization that oversees domain names, announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. who operate the .COM top-level-domain (TLD). ICANN made these changes in secret, without consulting or incorporating feedback from the ICANN community or Internet users. Although ICANN has a history of making similar deals behind closed doors, and also of ignoring unified opposition against such action, we are focused on leading the fight against price increases that will harm our customers (and the Internet as a whole). This is a crucial time to raise our voices given that .COM domains make up 40% of all registered domain names online. What does this change mean? Wholesale registries charge Namecheap a set fee per domain name per year. According to this new agreement, Verisign will be allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains every year for 8 out of the next 10 years, and the increases don’t stop there. This will mean that .COM wholesale domain prices can grow by more than 70% over and above current prices over the next decade. The contract also allows for other price increases, which could drive prices up further, ultimately making .COM domains less accessible and more expensive for everybody. Why is ICANN doing this? Alongside these contract changes, Verisign agreed to pay ICANN an additional $20 million dollars over five years to support ICANN's domain name system initiatives, without any clarity about how ICANN will spend the money, or who will ensure that the funds are properly spent on domain infrastructure. ---- Sent using Guerrillamail.com Block or report abuse: https://www.guerrillamail.com//abuse/?a=Qk55CAgOV6dYiwG5vX8SdxrDQM%2BexpoDi…

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com rate increase
by Mitch Kennedy Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Transparency. Its what is needed here. Please be clear with supporters about how the funds frommverisgn will be used to improve our , your customers, experience. And why the rate increases are so large. Thank you Mitch Kennedy ND, CEM, LEED-AP,6SigmaBB

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] My opinion on the amendment
by Jan Scheiper Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, as a Computer Science student and owner of several .com domain, I am not in favor of this planned amendment. Since it allows a price hike for domains, which might render them unaffordable for students like me, I'd prefer to keep the rules as they are and figure out another way to improve security and the infrastructure, without massively increasing the prices. I hope my and other people's comment can sway the decision process away from the current form of this amendment, especially the article allowing an increase of the price. Regards, Jan Scheiper

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