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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Icann
by Barry Godwin Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Any increases in prices for .com will have a detrimental effect on my business. Ultimately I would seek other options. Please do not implement any substantial price increases. Sincerely -- Barry

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] dot com amendment
by B SUR Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear ICANN, Please keep .com addresses available and affordable to all. And please don’t increase prices and/or limitations without consulting the public. Please have your process be transparent to all, so decisionmaking can be democratic, fair and realistic. Kind regards, DW

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Concerned holder of .com domains
by Davide Marquês Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Prices increases should be tied to increases in delivered value. Please don't mess around with prices just to increase revenue.

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

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear ICANN, As a computer science graduate I've grown up in the time that Internet was still emerging as a new means for people to connect together. A means that is accessible by everyone no matter their financial situation.. this is so to allow education to people which don't afford it and a fighting chance for people of less privileged countries to make it in today's market. Selling out the .com TLD goes against all the freedom. I do understand that there are ever increasing expenses but by giving it to a 3rd party there is no control over prices by government bodies after the mentioned 8-10 year period passed. If the .com tld is sold we'd be selling a substantial part of the Internet. Stopping this will help future generations keep building better technologies without having to rely on large corporations My proposal is for ICANN to keep full control of the TLDs and regulate them as it has done in the past. Thank you for your time. Best Regards Thomas Agius

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] ICANN Verisign 10 year agreement
by Tony Addison Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Good morning I would like to register our opposition to the agreement with Verisign. Domain name rule and price changes affect businesses in every country in the world and as such any agreement should be transparent, fair and aimed at promoting use of the Internet. Closed agreements work directly against this. In this case the work is being sub-contracted (we would have hoped ICAN had the resources and skills to manage this key role themselves) which automatically brings additional costs to the end users. This agreement will see an increase in .COM domain costs to end users of at least 60% over the ten years, assuming registrars opt to just pass on the Verisign rises. To then allow Verisign to operate its own registrar (virtual and reseller) will diminish the competition as other registrars, particularly smaller ones, cannot compete. This flies directly in the face of the whole reason ICANN and the system was set up in the first place. In the UK we have already seen a reduction in registrars as one particular US company acquires smaller UK businesses and I must admit that the customer service since then in those companies has plummeted. Keeping competition alive, prices down and consistent and avoiding out-sourcing to organisations looking to profit as much as possible from a captive audience is a raison d'etre of ICANN, but this move is contrary to that aim. Please, if not yet signed, reconsider, build the resources and skills in ICANN itself and cut out the profiteering of a commercial middleman. Thanks you for reading Kind regards Tony Addison [cid:image001.jpg@01D5E0B6.9C3757C0]<https://www.free-rein.net/> Tony Addison Free Rein Limited E tony.addison(a)free-rein.net<mailto:tony.addison@free-rein.net> W www.free-rein.net<http://www.free-rein.net/> T 01473 810002 M 07789 076361 P Hadleigh Enterprise Park, Crockatt Road, Hadleigh, Ipswich, IP7 6RJ [cid:image002.jpg@01D5E0B6.9C3757C0] Suppliers to Public Sector through G-Cloud. Free Rein supports the Hadleigh Porch Project - helping develop young people - www.porchproject.co.uk<http://www.porchproject.co.uk/> Registered Office 10 Hadleigh Enterprise Park, Crockatt Road, Hadleigh, Ipswich, IP7 6RJ Registered in England 05236270 This email transmission is private and confidential, and is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you believe you have received this email in error please destroy it. The views and opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Free Rein Ltd.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price increases of .com
by CK Tan Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear Team ICANN, I hereby ask for your serious consideration of increasing prices. A small rise, say 10% is reasonable. However, any rise in the range 30% or more is unthinkable, and will kill many busineses, especially those who want to start out new. Hence, do consider carefully the small rise instead. Thank you. CK

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] price rises
by Chris Hunter Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear ICANN 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. Really ICANN, is Donald fucking Trump running this organisation now too? Hasn't the USA humiliated themselves enough in the last three years? Regards Chris Hunter.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM Price Increases
by alberto＠doutramaneira.eu Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello I totally disagree with the plans of ICANN and Verisign to increase the price of .COM domains and the worst thing is that they negotiate this type of agreement behind closed doors, without the transparency that is required for an organization like ICANN. Regards Alberto Prieto Magdalena

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] ICANN changes
by Daniel Mard Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Increasing from the current $10 a year would be an unjust expense for small businesses. To stay competitive you need to own more than just one domain and any increase is made exponentially expensive.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] new ICANN contract with Verisign
by ichiou Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

To members of ICANN, I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the new ICANN contract with Version which, from my understanding, will allow Verisign " to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains every year for 8 out of the next 10 years, and…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." I also understand that ICANN will receive 20 million from Verisign over the next 5 years in exchange for allowing Verisign to raise fees in drastic measure mentioned above. Being the sole governing body with policies and decisions that will ultimately impact what consumers will have to pay for the domain services, I am concerned about the actual details that justify this contract. I even wonder if there is any improper or illegal reason for granting Verisign to impose rate hike in such extraordinarily manner? I fear that ICANN becomes the new FDA and Verisign becomes the new pharmaceutical industries, and that we the consumers become the victim of unreasonable price hike! I am here to ask ICANN to provide more details and transparency regarding this contract, and to reconsider whether ICANN has put consumers at the mercy of Verisign’s pricing power in order to receive funding from it. I look forward to your clarification, explanation, and even reconsideration of this very important matter! Sincerely, I-Wei Chiou

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