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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Don't Increase the prices for .Com Domains
by Maryam YaqOoB Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Please don't increase the prices for .com domains, whatever the matter is, it will be worse for coming years. Please let it be same as it was before.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Verisign's Price Increases to Domain Registrars
by Salim Janmohamed Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

To Whom it May Concern The current move to allow Verisign to increase wholesale prices to domain registrars every year for the next 8 years will make it much harder for small businesses to keep domains registered. These prices will be passed on to the end users (customers of registrars) and over time, will make it economic only for the largest corporations to hold the worlds domains. Keeping domain registration fees modest, just like keeping the internet free and open, will ensure the world continues to have good access to innovation from small upstarts. Thank you for your consideration. Salim Janmohamed, MBA, OT Click here<http://www.communitytherapists.com/referral-inquiry> to make a referral. Community Therapists | Managing Director T: 604.681.9293 Ext. 146 | F: 604.681.8705 Direct: 604.566.8455 director(a)communitytherapists.com<mailto:director@communitytherapists.com> www.communitytherapists.com<http://www.communitytherapists.com/> Building Skills. Empowering People. (r) [cid:image001.gif@01D5E02F.B00D3D00]<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Community-Therapists/525391797495966>[cid:image002.gif@01D5E02F.B00D3D00]<https://twitter.com/ctispeaks> [cid:image003.gif@01D5E02F.B00D3D00] <http://www.linkedin.com/company/community-therapists-inc?trk=cp_followed_na…> This message and any attachments or links are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately via return email and destroy the original message. Thank you

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Comment
by Lewis Bayers Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Please note my objection to your Verisign announcement. In addition to impact on pricing, Verisign itself has a history of consumer unfriendly and even unethical behavior. Lewis

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Dear ICANN: This Change Will Hurt New Indies
by Flora H. V. Adams Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] price increases
by Laura Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Please do not raise prices for domain names that will make mandatory % increases per year. This will affect my small business along with other small businesses. Please do not pass this type of legislation. We have so many business expenses that we were happy to pay reasonable prices for domain names. Thank you. -- *Sincerely,* *Laura Cicholski* *Owner & Land Investor* *www.coloniallandsolutions.com <http://www.coloniallandsolutions.com/>* *616-403-2983*

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Ridiculous Sly Tactics
by Tri Tones Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Another way for ole sleazy corporate America to stick it to the little guy. What a ridiculous and cowardly way to increase pricing without public acknowledgement. Not only have we become a brick and mortar store of just a few corporate businesses that has shut down just about every small business across the country. But you now want your part in taking down small online businesses too? What a joke. Shameful and deceitful. 70% increase? Yearly increases for up to the next 10 years? Nice way to put yourself out of business and open doors for your position to be replaced..

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I oppose Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Piotr Zduniak 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 72% over 12 years, which 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, will dramatically hurt the internet ecosystem. It will especially hurt small website operators, like myself, and will discourage internet users from creating blogs and personal pages, with the end result of reducing democratization of the internet. 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 on the planet to carefully regulate this monopoly to prevent abuse by Verisign. The only conscionable thing to do right now is to freeze wholesale .com prices and re-evaluate 5-10 years from now. A policy that allows price increases tracking the rate of inflation (but no higher) may make sense in the future, but 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. - Piotr [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.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] You should be ashamed of yourselves.
by Laura Childs Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

There is a difference between making a profit and raking everyone else over the coals. There is a difference between taking advantage of your connections and operating a business with some integrity. Sadly, this entire money grab is lacking of both of the latter. There is no need to gauge everyone by another 40%. No need. This is just registration! You're not even providing a service! If you actually DID something, perhaps an increase would be in order. Laura Childs

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Provision for .COM Registry Fee Price Increases
by Ben Congleton Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

To Whom it may concern, As a long time citizen of the internet, I do not understand the need to remove price caps from registry management services managed by VERISIGN. Verisign currently has a 47.76% net profit margin and 2017 revenue of over 1 Billion. Clearly the cost of maintaining the .COM registry is not impacting VERISIGN's ability to turn a profit or grow their business. Providing provisions for price increases increases the cost of doing business for all registries and domain name registrants, and is simply free $$ for VERISIGN a company, that does not need any more revenue. Given that VERISIGN paid $20 million for this privilege of increasing register fees, I'd suggest you ask for far more $$. They can afford it. You can do better than this. -Ben Congleton CEO, Olark Have you seen the new Olark?

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com pricing
by Brent Daugherty Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Please stop raising .com prices, you've done it 8 out of the last 10 years. Brent Daugherty brentd67(a)gmail.com

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