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

Feb. 11, 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. Muhammad Shahzaib Islamabad, Islamabad Pakistan Sent from my iPhone

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

Feb. 11, 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. -- *Ryan Szeto* *Graduate Student Research Assistant, Michigan Corso Group <http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~jjcorso/>* *University of Michigan Ann Arbor - Computer Science and Engineering PhD* *Website: ryanszeto.com <http://ryanszeto.com>*

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I object
by Chris Scherf Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I object to the proposed contract changes that are going to lead to price increases in .com registry. What is on offer to the end user for paying more? There is *no need* besides artificially increasing your own profits for these changes. You're behaving without integrity. I object. Chris Scherf

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] The Wealthy grow richer, and the poor poorer, and so the divide continues
by Richard Ward Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

The Wealth grow richer, and the poor poorer, and so the divide continues

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Not Cool
by Vane Andonov Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] comments
by Ekoterra | Valdemar Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear ICANN, Your decision will affect many users in the world. That kind of greedy and unilateral decision are dirty capitalist game, increasing hate, inequality and capitalism in its worst form. If this decision will be made, I will personally close my xxx.com websites and convert them to other domains, and I am sure many would follow. [https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Pt2q-5bUQQg9GlBACLA7Yj2lGZN9EySgURL…] Best regards, Valdemar Kratkovski Project manager +370 699 14119 valdemar(a)ekoterra.lt<mailto:valdemar@ekoterra.lt> UAB Terra recycling Draugystės g. 4A, LT-13220 Valčiūnų km., Vilniaus r. sav www.ekoterra.lt<http://www.ekoterra.lt/> | www.metalukainos.lt<http://www.metalukainos.lt/> Atliekas paverskime žaliavomis kartu!

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] (no subject)
by Corey Wright Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Entrepreneurs and business owners all over America face challenges in starting and growing their business. One of our few reprieves is that getting a website and domain name is cheap and relatively easy with the right tools. Startups and new businesses under 5 years old create 99% of net new jobs in the USA, yet entrepreneurship is on a decline, and every year, more regulations and challenges come up that make starting a business more difficult. A free internet and easy access to domain names is essential to starting a business. Please don't add yet another challenge to entrepreneurs and startups by adopting this ammendment and allowing .com domain name pricing increases. Corey Wright Rural Entrepreneur & Business Owner

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Keep the internet open
by Mason Embry Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Please reconsider raising prices on .com domains. There are already far too many things in this world that are accessibility only to those with wealth. The internet should be run primarily as a public utility, not a money making scheme. Sincerely, Mason Embry

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM Agreement is Ridiculous
by Jared Moore Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

This new agreement with Verisign is awful. This is clearly a corrupt attempt to increase profits at the expense of a captive user base. Reverse this decision now before it is too late.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] ICANN shouldn't allow price hike for dot com domains
by Kamal V. Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Sir, I have got the news that very soon the dot com domain price will be increased soon and it will keep on increasing for several years on regular basis. Dot com domain price is already on higher side. Requesting you not to allow such price hike for the benefit of the end users. Regards *Kamal*

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] The Internet isn't just for big companies and deep pocket operators
by Tom at Techbait dot net Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

You people are looking to make the Internet another rich only and deep pockets organization only playground. The Internet itself was created by the US government for the People and for research and development, and while commerce has bloomed, this should not be now just for the sole exploitation by private companies to gouge and make more money off our backs. "Verisign will be allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. After a two year “freeze”, Verisign can increase prices by 7% annually during 2026-2029, then another two year “freeze”. This cycle will continue, meaning that within 10 years, .COM domains could cost approximately 70% more than the current wholesale price of $7.85 " This is crazy, heavy handed, greedy, totally uncalled for, and UNACCEPTABLE! "ICANN also had rules that the operator of a TLD could not operate a domain name registrar. Although in 2012 ICANN allowed operators of new gTLDs to have domain name registrars, it did not apply to Verisign. The new contract will allow Verisign to operate its own registrar, except for selling .COM domain names itself. To circumvent this, it is also possible that Verisign could act as a reseller of .COM domains, through another registrar. This result is that the company that controls almost 80% of the registrar pricing for domain names will compete directly with all domain registrars, maximizing its control of domain name pricing to the detriment of other competing registrars. While this might result in lower prices to consumers, fewer registrars will harm competition, choice, and domain name services. " Can you say MONOPOLY??? We'll be forced to call on politicians to get involved, and they'll LOVE the opportunity. You won't be able to hide behind the Trump Administration forever. "As detailed on Standing Up to ICANN to Keep Domain Prices in Check and pricecaps.org, over 3,500 comments were submitted in support of price controls for the .ORG, .INFO, and .BIZ TLDs. Only six comments supported removing price controls. ICANN discounted the comments that were in favor of maintaining price caps. A number of the comments were submitted using an online tool, which caused the comments to be discounted as “spam” by the ICANN Ombudsman. ICANN removed the price caps, primarily relying upon a biased preliminary analysis from 2009 by an economics professor that did not reference any data. " HOW DARE YOU IGNORE NEGATIVE COMMENTS!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!! Stop it. Just stop it NOW! If this happens you'll face grass roots and political involvement so deep that your collective heads will spin.Don't believe it? Okay. You'll have to find out the hard way, unless you come to your senses and stop gouging or looking to create a virtual monopoly on the Internet domain name space. Tom Connelly ====

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I oppose Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Chris Barber Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I oppose Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement. Any price increase to .COM pricing is a financial burden on me. I have several personal domains and since they have or had email, I have to keep the domain essentially forever. I'm absolutely distraught over the pricing of "premiere domains", so often I end up getting a .COM domain and if those prices go up, then I have to get a .XYZ domain because it'll be the only TLD that I can afford. You must not permit Amendment 3 to pass. You are selling your soul to corporate greed. Thank you. Sincerely, Chris Barber

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] This is totally unfair
by Spanish to English vocabulary Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear all, This is totally unfair to increase the .com domain fee. Please rethink this and don't increase fee. Thanks

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] No more increases please
by Winston Henderson Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, everything is being increased on a regular basis making it extremely difficult for the small business or individual website owner to be able to keep a site on the net so please no more? Thank you, regards, Mike.

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

Feb. 11, 2020

I am a small web developer and I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices. 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. -- Alex Meyer

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do not increase .com domain name prices
by Jaylene Gonyea Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

This deal is horrible and will purposefully affect millions of people and businesses worldwide. The consequences of this decision will impact the entire Internet for many year. Don't monopolize the domain name market and all of us small business people who are dependant on our domain names for business. Sincerely, Jaylene Gonyea,CEO Business Assist info(a)businessassistme.com www.businessassistme.com Helping coaches, consultants and businesses streamline systems and get-the-work-done online.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Appose cost increase
by Randy Mitchell Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Iam poor and have had my private domain names for many many years and feel that it is my right not to deal with annual increases for something that I feel are my entitlement for my personnel life in the new technology age and not to be taken advantage of continual unfair cost increases. Randy C Mitchell

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] PROTEST SIGNIFICANT CONTRACT CHANGES ICANN HAS WITH VERISIGN, INC.
by Webmaster＠AmerServ.net Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

NO MORE BEHIND CLOSED DOOR DECISIONS! Verisign is making far too much money on domain owners as it is. I PROTEST THAT: Verisign will be allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains every year for 8 out of the next 10 years, and the increases don't stop there. I PROTEST THAT: Alongside these contract changes, Verisign agreed to pay ICANN an additional $20 million dollars over five years to support ICANN's domain name system initiatives, without any clarity about how ICANN will spend the money, or who will ensure that the funds are properly spent on domain infrastructure. We should start an initiative to find out who it is in ICANN that is wanting to funnel more money to Verisign and clear out the ICANN swamp.

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

Feb. 11, 2020

I disagree with the Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Raising prices with so little oversight is wrong
by Katie Vernoy Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Please don't allow verisign to so Drama raise .com praises without enough oversight. Giving them additional money and opportunities to become a near monopoly seems reckless and wrong. Please reconsider these changes.

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

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello I am an independent artist and I depend on my website to share and sell my work and make a living. It is a modest living but a living none the less. And I believe I contribute in my small way to making the world a better place through my artwork. It’s important to me to keep .com domain prices low. Gradual increases could put me out of business and make the internet a pay to play environment. Think about all us small folks and what will happen to the internet if our creative voices are silenced. Please! Do NOT increase .com domain prices! Sincerely, Cecilia Cecilia Schiller www.ceciliaschiller.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Please do not increase the .com domain names
by Rebecca Rubin Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

without further study and consideration Thanks. Rebecca Rubin Skokie, IL

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Changes made without consulting internet users
by Rebecca Roberts Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

To whom it may concern, I am writing to express my dismay in discovering the changes arranged for the .COM domain. These changes will not for the benefit of internet users at large and the proposed price increases could be extremely detrimental to global businesses and by extension, to the global economy. I ask that these changes are stopped immediately. Yours faithfully, Rebecca Roberts

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

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, I would like to voice my opposition to Proposed Amendment 3. I believe that the global DNS registration system should be run primarily as a public concern. The only entities that stand to benefit from the proposed arrangement are verisign itself, at the expense of the public. These price hikes will impact the millions of small, independent businesses and developers that rely on the system as is to make their livelihood. Further, this could prove yet another point of pressure that convinces a small business to make their online presence exclusively in the Facebook walled garden and eschew the web itself. The web, and global DNS, were envisioned to be run for the public good, and they SHOULD be run for the public good. Deals such as this are an abdication of that mandate; short sighted profit chasing at the expense of all else. Please do not adopt this proposal.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do not increase .com domain name prices.
by Jaylene Gonyea Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

This deal is horrible and will purposefully affect millions of people and businesses worldwide. The consequences of this decision will impact the entire Internet for many year. Don't monopolize the domain name market and all of us small business people who are dependant on our domain names for business. Sincerely, Jaylene Gonyea,CEO Business Assist info(a)businessassistme.com www.businessassistme.com Helping coaches, consultants and businesses streamline systems and get-the-work-done online.

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