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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] STOP .COM Price Increases
by Quốc Đại Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Not happy
by Strider Hiryu Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Involvement of Verisign, a for profit corporation, is unacceptable. Like any other commercial endevour, this will result into corporate tyranny and censorship. Will Verisign allow domains such as "verisign-crimes.com"? Will they stop people from getting domain names simply because they disagree with them? Of course they will. Look at what every commercial tech company does. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. all de-platform people and commit massive acts of censorship. Furthermore, they can increase costs overnight and without the ability of a small business or individual to ever influence them. It creates a monopoly around Verisign. Large corporations couldn't care one bit about the costs of domains because to them, there is no difference between $300,000 and $30. For me, I can no longer compete when I start getting domain names in excess of $10. Our entire business model is centered on offering smaller websites for a few dollars and Verisign's price hikes will make me charge as much as larger companies like GoDaddy, which offer inferior services at higher prices. I realize that people will say that it's only a few dollars increase. But, the problem is that every aspect of my business is increasing and every single one of these increases is killing my business. Technologically speaking, domain services are not rocket science. Domains shouldn't really cost more than $0.01 when the cost is divided amongst all the players. Instead of prices going down, they now are going up! Keanu Lazar

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Strongly opposed to price increases
by John Leung Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

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

Feb. 11, 2020

Please keep the costs the same for our domains. It would be wrong to see our fees raised out of control for years. Thanks, Jim Elsmore Nevada Trimpak Inc www.trimpak.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Comments on .Com Domain Price Increases
by Bamai Namata Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear ICANN Team, I am writing to express my displeasure with your proposed increase in .com domain prices in collaboration with commercial organization Verisign Inc. The internet is a beautiful place that is responsible for bringing some of the poorest people out of poverty with the use of easily accessible domains. This move by your organization will only serve to prevent social mobility and promote further inequality. Please do well to revise this decision. Keeping the internet open and accessible to everyone is paramount. Regards, Bamai Namata Founder & Managing Director Tel: +237 678352269 Maibeta Inc. Email: bamainamata(a)maibeta.com Fondation Nki Building Web: www.maibeta.com Suite 5, 1st Floor South West Region Bonduma, Buea Cameroon

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do not allow increasing .com prices
by Karina Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

To whom it may concern, Among others, I would like to add my comment against increasing.com domains prices. For obvious reasons. Our businesses are based on .com domains. If yearly increases are allowed, I would personally abandon .com completely as it's not fair. We already pay every year for the same domain. Uncontrolled price increases are unacceptable.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do not raise prices on .com
by Bob W Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I own several .com domains and am willing to let many of them go and sell off the others to stop being a verisign / icann customer. I am opposed to the increase in price. Many of us in the .com world are very effective at marketing and SEO. A total loss of enough customers can cost you more than the entire planned profit margin of the price increase here. This is how we will resist.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] A comment from a developing country citizen
by Haris Ainur Rozak Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Don't Increase .COM pricing
by Kibria Hasan Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hi, There are billions of users of .COM. If you increase it's pricing we will be affected badly. So Please don't do this. Thanks, Kibria

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do not raise .com fees
by Matt C Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Small businesses hurt the most because keeping overhead low is very important. Lining pockets and shielding the public from your spending is wrong. Thank you, Matt Carey

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Re proposed amendment 3
by Carey Dessaix Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, My comments on the proposed .COM amendments: The proposed amendments allow too high of an increase in price. Especially because there is no other option for small family domains like mine who have invested into their domain names, and cannot afford the time and money to switch. The huge economies of scale of domain names combined with the increased computer power and efficiency advances of newer computer hardware, should mean only lower costs, more profit and a better product for Verisign. If Verisign are requiring such higher increases to provide better security and other improvements then that is their own problem. They are being too wasteful, so why should the world have to pay for Verisign inefficiencies? Regards, Carey.

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

Feb. 11, 2020

I own multiple .COM 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. -- Phillip Demro phil(a)demros.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Egregious Abuse of Power
by Lauren Hom Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

In a global climate that reeks of corruption and greed, please don't add fuel to the fire. The dot com extension is practically a public utility. Trying to gouge consumers on this will mean they turn on you. I'm launching a business and will soon buy a domain name; you can be sure I vote with my dollars. However, if you treat consumers fairly and act with transparency, you'll prolong the popularity of dot com. I hope you do the right thing.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price increase
by Sergey Alekseev Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello. Please do not increase prices of .com domains. Keep them affordable for everyone and encourage further internet exposure. Regards, Sergey

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Ammendments on .com domains
by Jesse Kinuthia Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Please halt these ammendments for they will push domain prices up. The Internet, setting up of websites and online properties should be affordable. Your policy is against this.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Looks like 20 millions isn't enough for .org like yours
by Fadzli Badarul Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Should've change icann.org to iwill.com yourself. If not, start do the right thing. These days secrets doesn't stay long. Including evil plans. Do not raise domain prices. Let internet thrives and let newbie entrepreneur arrive. -- Fadzli Badarul

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com price increase
by Trendy Mobile Designs Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, I was notified by my registrar that you plan to increase the cost for .com, .net, .org and other domain extensions. I beg you to reconsider your decision as this will affect my ability to continue to operate my small business. I can't afford to pay to rent a business location as inflation, taxes gasoline and food prices have increased dramatically in the last few years. The increase in price cost for TLDs will exacerbate my ability to provide the affordable service I give my clients. It's just too many price increases from all directions. Please support small businesses like mine and keep free enterprise affordable for us and those starting their own businesses. I don't really want to close my doors and depend on government stipends. I prefer to work hard and pay taxes to support our economy. Best regards, Martin Acosta Web Design Consultant

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

Feb. 11, 2020

To whom it may concern: I have registered several .com domain names, and I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The proposed dramatic price increases will significantly negatively impact small business owners; large corporations, of course, will not mind the change. I am against Verisign's involvement in paying ICANN significant sums of money without any clarity as to how ICANN can use the money. I am against Verisign being given the ability to increase the wholesale prices of .COM domains to registrars every year for the next 8 out of 10 years, without any clarity as to what conditions it is right or proper for them to do so. Verisign has also not made a convincing case as to why increasing prices for domain management, given that management costs (absent of actual hosting etc) should only be administrative, should scale roughly linearly with the number of domains registered, and does not require significant innovation; if anything, as the internet matures, these prices should be _going down._ Increases to prices will only make domain name squatting, a poisonous trade that stifles internet innovation, an even more lucrative market. Additionally, I am against ICANN making these kind of changes in secret, without consulting feedback from the internet. The internet as it exists today is primarily the result of group action and good-faith consensus building; ICANN's actions in this space recently have eroded the trust that make the internet function. ICANN has been granted the broad powers it has with the understanding that it will operate in the public interest; but recent ICANN behaviors seem a lot like capture by large, wealthy, incumbent corporations and groups. Take note: behavior like this price change, were it to go through, will have me writing letters to my Federal representatives about ICANN's suitability in being trusted to manage the DNS. Regards, Alexander Roederer Cambridge Massachusetts USA

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Strongly disagree with proposed amendment 3
by Samuel Roeca Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

This amendment seems, to me, to be a thinly-veiled money grab with a short-sighted cash injection for ICANN at the expense of all holders of .COM domains. Your justification for this move is shrouded in complicated language that fails to convince me of its necessity or importance (beyond your desire, presumably, to obtain $20 million dollars per year essentially from all domain name holders). "work together on additional initiatives related to enhancing the security, stability, and resiliency of the Domain Name System (DNS)"? Sorry, but I see nothing tangible in this vague generalization. I've noticed that almost all terrible things for the open world are shrouded in arguments of "security" and "stability". Guess what? Innovation is often at odds with those concepts, and it's hard for me to see how this is going to increase creator participation on the internet. I sincerely disagree with this amendment and hope you don't force me to move my blog to another domain. Best, Samuel Roeca

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Do NOT Increase .COM fee.
by Amitab Mukerjee Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

As somehow who owns several .com domains for my own personal use, I am concerned by the cash-grab that is being attempted here. There is no pressing justification that I can see to warrant the increase in price, other than to increase profit.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] New proposed change for .com registries
by Evan Erickson Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Hello, I would like to gain more information about the change. It appears that prices will rise if you go through with it. What is the reasoning behind the change?

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM Price Increases
by Jason Kulhanek Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

I was recently informed by namecheap.com (my domain registrar) that ICANN made changes in secret with Verisign, without consulting or incorporating feedback from the ICANN community or Internet users that effects the .com domain pricing. As a small business owner that operates on very low margins this has an impact on my business. I would like to know exactly why these price increases are being put in place and what benefit, as a small business owner, it will have to me. I'm sure the general "the cost to run these services goes up every year" will be one of the reasons, but I would think in the face of ever decreasing prices in technology, this doesn't justify the significant increase in pricing that appears to have been put in place. I can see a 10% increase which would be a significant revenue increase considering how many .com domains there are. But....according to namecheap.com the price could increase by as much as 70% over the next 10 years. That, to me, is just way too much. Jason Kulhanek Owner of Oolution Technologies

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM Price Increases
by Jerusha Lee Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

Dear Sir/Madam, I was recently notified of your upcoming agreement to raise the prices of domain names registered by 7% annually. Having been an avid customer, purchasing three domain names within the span of ten days, I would advise you to adhere to your own mission, which until now you have upheld diligently, in the words of your founder and philanthropist, Ms. Esther Dyson: “It is a nonprofit public benefit corporation organized under the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for charitable and public purposes.” With such an influential business and .COM provider built upon the basic principles of Corporate Ethics, ICANN should continue to endure as a highly commended and respected embodiment of the values envisioned by your founder: in your own admirable words, and more importantly, your resulting actions. Cheers, Jerusha

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM domain registration fee increases
by Richard Graham Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

To ICANN Representatives, I am opposed to your .COM domain registration fee increase proposals. You may feel that this is "Free Enterprise" at it's finest! Making secret decisions with the monopoly between your organization (ICANN) and Verisign, is not in the interest of .COM domain registered uses on the internet. Price increases of 7% per year over an 8-10 year period is what I call price gouging! I can understand the need for increasing prices to some degree, but the increases that you are proposing is a ripoff to the 40% of domain name registers on the internet. As our good Swedish environmental activist friend Greta Thunberg would say, "HOW DARE YOU!! Decision makers in your organization should rethink your price increase proposals. Regards, Richard Graham One of the many .COM domain registered users

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] This is not fair, short sighted and greedy
by Patrick Welker Feb. 11, 2020

Feb. 11, 2020

The internet should stay affordable for its users. Any charge in the infrastructure, e. g. changing .COM domain prices feels like an assault on the users.

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