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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed changes in COM fee structure
by Robert Langer Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

As a long time owner of a modest number of COM domains, I wish to voice my outrage at the deal struck behind closed doors that would allow Versign to unilaterally raise fees for COM domains. COM domains are essentially a public utility and secret deals violate an implied public trust. Moreover, the opportunity for profit by capricious price increases over customers held hostage due to established business is grossly unfair. Would it be ok for a city government to allow a commercial vendor a monopoly on managing the physical locations for customers to shop, and for businesses to receive mail, and then to give that monopoly vendor the right to escalate fees by more than 70% in 10 years? I strongly urge reconsideration and renegotiation of this deal. Robert Langer

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Don't raise prices on .com
by Mike Pasche Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I feel the process you followed was not transparent and not fair. Please start over. Thanks Mike Pasche

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

Feb. 11, 2020

We don't agree. -- *Le Tuan* *Vietnam Intelligent Technology and Development Application Company Limited (VINTECHN)* Add: No 60/14 Vu Huu Street, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam Phone: +84-24-3748 1073 | Skype: import511 | import(a)vintechn.com | thaiautocanopy(a)gmail.com | www.vintechn.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Vote Against
by Jacob Hughes Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, I think that while allowing increases of 7% may sound modest it is already very cost prohibitive to own a domain. I believe that the current pricing is fine and I am sure the CEO's or higher-ups could take a pay cut just pay everyone more and not worry about increasing profits for once. Your profits are fine. The internet needs to be accessible to everyone.. Jacob

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

Feb. 11, 2020

I currently register several .com domain names. I oppose the proposed price increase for .COM domains as being unjustified, monopolistic extortion. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. The Internet registries should not be managed as cash cows for exploitation. ICANN should negotiate in public. If Verisign wants to increase prices dramatically, ICANN should find alternative registrars, or authorize more than one .com registrar. Michael Price Santa Clara, California United States

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Dot com prices
by avijit sarkar Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Do not increase dot com prices.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] A heritage of freedom
by Igor Oliveira Ferreira Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

The dot COM is a World Wide Web community birthright, and by the supply and demand law, where the demand is very high, and the supply is unlimited, make no sense the increase in it’s price. Igor Oliveira Ferreira, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com Domains
by Doug Hansen Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

To Whom it May Concern: To allow a single organization such control over domain names is like a monopoly. Then to tell them they can increase our rates up to 70% in the next decade just because they gave you money is crazy. There are people out there still paying $40-50/yr for a domain name the way it is. Don't allow those people to have to pay $68-$85/yr for the same services. There are plenty of mom and pop shops out there that count every penny that they spend just to stay a float. Don't make them have to go back to the drawing board when it comes to their internet presence. Doug Hansen CEO Digital Creations Inc.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do not increase the price
by Eric Norlie Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

There is no reason for a consistent increase in the price of domain names in an age of decreasing hardware costs. Please find a different way to increase revenue, possibly through more domain registrations, but not by increasing the costs of each one. -Eric Norlie

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] On the topic of removing price caps
by Petr Ospalý Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear Sir, I am a small entrepreneur and I own few domain names with .com, .org, .info, .biz and other. The truth is that my "brand" domains are only three and the only top level domain I truly care about is .com. But I don't own just three domains I had to own many other combinations of tld. and hyphenated version of my "brands" to fight dns scams... That is the reality of nowadays internet. I am certain that your effort to remove price caps is for nothing else but a greedy deal with Verizon BUT even if you try to argument that the reason for raising prices is exactly to tackle the problem with dns speculators - you are wrong. No matter how high the price for a domain will go, there will be always speculators holding as a hostage any brand-able names trying to resell it for an absurd amount of money. Also there will be always a crook attempting of dns scam using a very similar domain to lure visitors from proper domains (e.g. mymail.com vs my-mail.com vs mymail.biz etc.). So every buyer of a new domain name will have to protect himself buy buying out a bulk of otherwise useless domains to just avoid all of these problems. At the end the only one able to fight on this battlefield will be big companies - it is already almost impossible to came up with some free distinguishable name for a domain name - the internet is over saturated and new business are starting each day. Maybe that is the reason why I already decided to move my brands to .xyz but .com is overwhelmingly dominant as of now and will be for some time still. Your move to remove price caps will hurt only little people like me - I am not worry that google, microsoft, facebook and any other big name will have an issue to pay whatever price for... well whatever. -- Best regards / S pozdravem *Petr Ospalý*

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