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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Please do not raise .com price
by Andrew Knox Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Please keep .com accessible to all. Respect pioneers and innovators. -- Andrew Knox

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Opposed to amendment 3
by Luke Parkhurst Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am writing in opposition of the proposed amendment. I saw very little written in the proposal to justify the potential 7% annual increases. Has VeriSign been struggling since prices were frozen? Or is it a corporate hand out from the current US commerce department at the expense of hundreds of thousands of small businesses and individuals who maintain a presence on the web. Please either stop this amendment or at the very least limit the increases to a more reasonable 1 or 2% annually. Thanks for your consideration. Luke Parkhurst

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Marisa Womble Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a registrant of a .com domain name. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. 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. There is no justified reason for an increase. Marisa Womble Houston, Texas United States Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Montgomery Rob Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Dear Mr. Namazi, Nat Cohen’s response (below) says it all. There is NO justification for a price increase. If ICANN members approve this, the only logical explanation is that ICANN members must stand to gain from it personally, one way or another. There is NO other possible justification. Please prove to the world that ICANN is NOT just looking out for itself and their Verisign buddies. Bluntly put, any approval of Verisign price increases will reek of collusion and another complete failure of ICANN to fulfill its mandate with regards to .COM. Regards, Rob Montgomery Nat Cohen’s full response: What is ICANN's justification for raising prices on millions of .com registrants? Why is Verisign entitled to make hundreds of millions of more dollars on top of the billion dollars it already makes from running .com? Why is ICANN allowing a company with market power to increase prices, without justification, and in the absence of meaningful competition that would restrain pricing? Does ICANN have any good answers to these questions? NTIA says it is ICANN's job to set prices on .com. ICANN says it is NTIA's job to set pricing. Who then is responsible for negotiating reasonable pricing on behalf of the public? Is NTIA wrong that it is ICANN's job to set prices? Was the DOJ wrong back in 2008 when it said that ICANN was failing to uphold its responsibility to constrain the market power of Verisign? NTIA did not mandate that ICANN increase .com prices, it merely set an upper limit beyond which prices should not go. ICANN retains the ability to freeze pricing while remaining consistent with NTIA guidance. It would be odd indeed if a U.S. Government agency was in favor of company raising prices on consumers without justification. At what point will ICANN start looking out for the public interest instead of only acting in the best interests of the registries? ICANN's preference for harming registrants to benefit registries highlights the fact that ICANN is unaccountable to the public, that its policy making structure provides no meaningful way for the public interest to be given any weight in developing policy, and that it lacks legitimacy. There is no justification for a price increase. Verisign is not facing higher costs that need to be passed along to customers. Verisign is already one of the most profitable companies in the world, enjoying extremely high profit margins and deriving enormous revenues per employee. ICANN's utter failure to protect the public from being ripped off by registries with market power setting ever higher prices is a sad reflection on ICANN. I urge ICANN to stop the needless transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars from registrants worldwide into the already overflowing pockets of Verisign by denying Verisign price increases. Regards, Nat Cohen President Telepathy, Inc.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] no .com price increases
by Void Walker Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

No price increases for .com, regulate higher up salaries instead. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Transfers are easy
by Corey Moyers Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

If you raise my prices I will simply transfer all my domains to another registrar. That’s how capitalism works. If you want to restructure your services to take advantage of customers who don’t know any better, your profits may increase the first year, but the long term effects will be a much smaller customer base. That customer base will have fewer domains as well. You only have a small portion of all the domains I own. Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] My Opinion on the Proposed .Com Price Increase
by Lonny Heaton Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I strongly appose any price increases in .com domain registrations. Let's keep it simple and low cost. If anything, make it more simple and less expensive. Thanks!@ -- Lonny Heaton (435) 674-0555

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Randall Cooper Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 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.* This is a formal e-mail requesting that you take a serious look into Verisign with the price increase. They are turning million of dollars with .com already and they are trying to charge more from the public. This is not their only business but this may be there largest. Randall Cooper Leeds, Alabama United States

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Andy Gardner Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a registrant of a .com domain name. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. 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. Andrew Gardner Christchurch, New Zealand

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] (no subject)
by +18608199001＠mailmymobile.net Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Lol cool it with the price increase buddy

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