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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Looks like 20 millions isn't enough for .org like yours
by Fadzli Badarul Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Should've change icann.org to iwill.com yourself. If not, start do the right thing. These days secrets doesn't stay long. Including evil plans. Do not raise domain prices. Let internet thrives and let newbie entrepreneur arrive. -- Fadzli Badarul

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com price increase
by Trendy Mobile Designs Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, I was notified by my registrar that you plan to increase the cost for .com, .net, .org and other domain extensions. I beg you to reconsider your decision as this will affect my ability to continue to operate my small business. I can't afford to pay to rent a business location as inflation, taxes gasoline and food prices have increased dramatically in the last few years. The increase in price cost for TLDs will exacerbate my ability to provide the affordable service I give my clients. It's just too many price increases from all directions. Please support small businesses like mine and keep free enterprise affordable for us and those starting their own businesses. I don't really want to close my doors and depend on government stipends. I prefer to work hard and pay taxes to support our economy. Best regards, Martin Acosta Web Design Consultant

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

Feb. 11, 2020

To whom it may concern: I have registered several .com domain names, and I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The proposed dramatic price increases will significantly negatively impact small business owners; large corporations, of course, will not mind the change. I am against Verisign's involvement in paying ICANN significant sums of money without any clarity as to how ICANN can use the money. I am against Verisign being given the ability to increase the wholesale prices of .COM domains to registrars every year for the next 8 out of 10 years, without any clarity as to what conditions it is right or proper for them to do so. Verisign has also not made a convincing case as to why increasing prices for domain management, given that management costs (absent of actual hosting etc) should only be administrative, should scale roughly linearly with the number of domains registered, and does not require significant innovation; if anything, as the internet matures, these prices should be _going down._ Increases to prices will only make domain name squatting, a poisonous trade that stifles internet innovation, an even more lucrative market. Additionally, I am against ICANN making these kind of changes in secret, without consulting feedback from the internet. The internet as it exists today is primarily the result of group action and good-faith consensus building; ICANN's actions in this space recently have eroded the trust that make the internet function. ICANN has been granted the broad powers it has with the understanding that it will operate in the public interest; but recent ICANN behaviors seem a lot like capture by large, wealthy, incumbent corporations and groups. Take note: behavior like this price change, were it to go through, will have me writing letters to my Federal representatives about ICANN's suitability in being trusted to manage the DNS. Regards, Alexander Roederer Cambridge Massachusetts USA

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Strongly disagree with proposed amendment 3
by Samuel Roeca Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

This amendment seems, to me, to be a thinly-veiled money grab with a short-sighted cash injection for ICANN at the expense of all holders of .COM domains. Your justification for this move is shrouded in complicated language that fails to convince me of its necessity or importance (beyond your desire, presumably, to obtain $20 million dollars per year essentially from all domain name holders). "work together on additional initiatives related to enhancing the security, stability, and resiliency of the Domain Name System (DNS)"? Sorry, but I see nothing tangible in this vague generalization. I've noticed that almost all terrible things for the open world are shrouded in arguments of "security" and "stability". Guess what? Innovation is often at odds with those concepts, and it's hard for me to see how this is going to increase creator participation on the internet. I sincerely disagree with this amendment and hope you don't force me to move my blog to another domain. Best, Samuel Roeca

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do NOT Increase .COM fee.
by Amitab Mukerjee Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

As somehow who owns several .com domains for my own personal use, I am concerned by the cash-grab that is being attempted here. There is no pressing justification that I can see to warrant the increase in price, other than to increase profit.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] New proposed change for .com registries
by Evan Erickson Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, I would like to gain more information about the change. It appears that prices will rise if you go through with it. What is the reasoning behind the change?

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM Price Increases
by Jason Kulhanek Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I was recently informed by namecheap.com (my domain registrar) that ICANN made changes in secret with Verisign, without consulting or incorporating feedback from the ICANN community or Internet users that effects the .com domain pricing. As a small business owner that operates on very low margins this has an impact on my business. I would like to know exactly why these price increases are being put in place and what benefit, as a small business owner, it will have to me. I'm sure the general "the cost to run these services goes up every year" will be one of the reasons, but I would think in the face of ever decreasing prices in technology, this doesn't justify the significant increase in pricing that appears to have been put in place. I can see a 10% increase which would be a significant revenue increase considering how many .com domains there are. But....according to namecheap.com the price could increase by as much as 70% over the next 10 years. That, to me, is just way too much. Jason Kulhanek Owner of Oolution Technologies

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM Price Increases
by Jerusha Lee Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear Sir/Madam, I was recently notified of your upcoming agreement to raise the prices of domain names registered by 7% annually. Having been an avid customer, purchasing three domain names within the span of ten days, I would advise you to adhere to your own mission, which until now you have upheld diligently, in the words of your founder and philanthropist, Ms. Esther Dyson: “It is a nonprofit public benefit corporation organized under the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for charitable and public purposes.” With such an influential business and .COM provider built upon the basic principles of Corporate Ethics, ICANN should continue to endure as a highly commended and respected embodiment of the values envisioned by your founder: in your own admirable words, and more importantly, your resulting actions. Cheers, Jerusha

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM domain registration fee increases
by Richard Graham Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

To ICANN Representatives, I am opposed to your .COM domain registration fee increase proposals. You may feel that this is "Free Enterprise" at it's finest! Making secret decisions with the monopoly between your organization (ICANN) and Verisign, is not in the interest of .COM domain registered uses on the internet. Price increases of 7% per year over an 8-10 year period is what I call price gouging! I can understand the need for increasing prices to some degree, but the increases that you are proposing is a ripoff to the 40% of domain name registers on the internet. As our good Swedish environmental activist friend Greta Thunberg would say, "HOW DARE YOU!! Decision makers in your organization should rethink your price increase proposals. Regards, Richard Graham One of the many .COM domain registered users

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] This is not fair, short sighted and greedy
by Patrick Welker Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

The internet should stay affordable for its users. Any charge in the infrastructure, e. g. changing .COM domain prices feels like an assault on the users.

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