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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Vote NO - Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Nick Peronti Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I am a registrant of a .com domain name. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. In light of all this, I am thoroughly against the increase of .COM domain prices.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] against the proposed price increase to .COM domains.
by Rakitha Perera Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I am a registrant of a .com domain name. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. Rakitha

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Verisign has been bad since they pulled the SiteFinder crap
by Zac Bowling Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Few remember SiteFinder with the NXDomain catch all they introduced that literally broke the internet. This was bad for the internet just as is most of this agreement. Don't increase the .COM fees. Keep domains accessible. Find a new provider to administer the .com domain realm. Zac Bowling

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Barbara Carter Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I am concerned about the proposed change to the .com registry agreement. I have a few .com domains registered with Namecheap, and the fees they charge are very reasonable and were guaranteed to remain so. They probably will have to break their agreement with their customers if they are charged more for this service. I hope you will reconsider making changes like this without widespread industry agreement. Sincerely, Barbara Carter

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Brian Forsyth Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

One of the greatest things about owning a domain is the low cost to entry. To gate this with price increases is unreasonable and supports increasing existing digital divides between the affluent and poor. Do not do this.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] (no subject)
by Ryan Mergen Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

The company I work for relies on reselling domains and I personally own 10 domains. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry – it has no business dictating the price. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. How can a particularly organization have monopoly over something that’s used by millions of people throughout the world? A 30% price increase would make life difficult for many domain investors and also discourage many from registering .com domains, especially people from developing countries.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com prices
by Zubair Amin Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Hi ICANN, Please keep .com prices lower as the world needs more .com domains. Already there are many new domain extensions, which are so expensive. .com is everyone's, first love. Don't make it expensive, please. It's a request of Zubair Amin a domainer by birth. Thanks and regard, Zubair Amin

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3
by Kristen Chanas Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I DO NOT AGREE WITH THE Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Domain fees should decrease or vanish, not increase
by Brad Templeton Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I am shocked at the proposal to increase annual charges for maintenance of existing .com domains (or any other domains for that matter.) There is not clear reason, in fact, that there are any significant costs in maintaining a domain after its registration which justify annual renewal fees of any significant amount. One can argue why the first registration might have a cost, but the cost is much lower in subsequent years, so much lower that it can be argued that a basic fee should cover many years or even a lifetime. Of course, it costs money to remain the core servers for a TLD to respond to requests for where the server is for any subdomain, and to respond to much rarer whois requests. A bulk of the cost of continuing a domain is the cost of billing for the additional year, or so we would see it if we calculated. Domains vary. While the domain "google.com" is fetched extremely frequently, it is also cached almost everywhere, but even so, small domains that are rarely referenced incur extremely low costs to maintain and serve. It might be reasonable to assess an annual charge, even an increasing annual charge, for a high use domain, but for low-use domains, there should be no annual cost at all. Instead, cost should come only when wishing to change data, and even then only if the change is unusual and not automated. The cost for the computers is trivial and dropping with time on Moore's Law curves. It is only the cost of programming and sysadmin which increase with time. For the latter, if more revenue is needed, make it for new registrations in a domain, not the maintenance of old ones.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Restrict increases in .COM prices
by Peter & Rachel Reynolds Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I have heard rumours of large price rises in .COM domains over the next decade. I do hope that you will decide against this, allowing ordinary people to continue to buy .COM domains, rather than being sidelined in to less "normal" addresses. Kind regards Peter & Rachel Reynolds www.peterreynoldsbooks.com =========

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