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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Zhang Xavier Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Dear Sir/Madam, This is Xavier from China. I am a domainer (I invest in domain names as a business). No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. Xavier Zhang Shanghai, China

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price increase
by Ciprian Cucuruz Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

This is outrageous! Financing a project in exchange of price increase is bribery in disguise. Doesn't Verisign make huge profits already from managing .com? Why so greedy!?

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Not okay
by Mike Wootton Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Your proposed amendment is a straight up bribe to benefit one company that will have large effects on 40% of the internet. This isn’t good regulation, and I’m farily certain it’s not ethical. Please reconsider and look out for the interests of the entire internet. Thanks, Mike. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Bruce Devlin Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Dear sir, I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. They are already significantly more expensive that the price of domains in the UK an other TLDs that I register. Given the volume and level of automation involved, I can see no correlation between the charge to me and the underlying costs incurred. I am a registrant of several .com domain names. 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. If ICANN were providing other features to limit the cybersquatting and other domain name ownership issues, then I might be more accepting of a price increase. As it stands, it feels like exploitation of the internet community Bruce Devlin Chiddingfold, UK

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do not raise prices
by David S Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Stop trying to make more money and just provide your service. Do not raise Prices

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Verisign Contract
by euthena＠gmail.com Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Please recognize my significant opposition to your secret changes to the Verisign deal effectively allowing higher domain costs to enable a secret transfer of monies to ICANN. Michael Goldstein 732-238-7171

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Please reject Verizon's proposal
by Nicole Sherburne Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Dear Sir or Madam, Please reject Verizon's proposal for wholesale price increases of .com domains and seek a new security certificate provider. It is unacceptable that there is no reasonable limit to any price changes for what is essentially a monopoly. Although I understand there are other TLD's available, there is no reason to give Verizon added funding with no added value. There are other providers of security certificates. Sincerely, Nicole Sherburne Accounting Systems Administrator * LKQ Corporation 5846 Crossings Blvd, Antioch, TN 37013-3129 (W) 615-600-3215 * (Cisco) 8102-3215 [LKQ-logo-sized]

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Rising price of domain registration
by kurthr＠apple.com Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Personally, this proposal to increase pricing and profitability of domain distribution makes me question the goals and stewardship of ICAAN. While the cost of providing the service and any amortized development/equipment costs continue to fall an increase in pricing without a substantial improvement in service or functionality seems only to serve monopolistic profit interests of particular government chosen private entities. I can not know the true motivation, but the appearance of impropriety is substantial without some well stated justification and promised improvement. I can not find a member of the community that supports this proposal. As shown by the sale/auction of corp.com <http://corp.com/> and other cases where outright theft of domains (apparently bypassing 2FA) continues apace domain registrars remain in the Wild West., It would appear that even basic market functionality is lacking. Little or no useful service is actually offered (that could not be automatically distributed in a cryptographic block chain or other trusted public database) other than the sale of an artificially scarce digital commodity by monopoly interests. Best luck, Kurth

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Against .com price rise
by maciozo Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 2020

Come on now, I doubt you lot are short on cash. Regards

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Troy Budge Feb. 12, 2020

Feb. 12, 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. 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. Troy Budge Minneapolis, Minnesota United States Sent from my iPhone

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