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

[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Domain Name Price Increases are Anti-Internet
by Betty Tew Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I oppose the monopolization of domain name registrations. I believe that previous price controls set on domain names are best for the Internet and will prevent monopolization and corruption by organizations controlling the domain names. Any new policies should work for the good of all. ICANN must take into consideration price increases affecting all registrars and their customers. It SHOULD NOT make unilateral decisions without the Internet community having a voice. -- Betty Tew 919-362-5036 :::::::::::::::::::: B2B Content Marketing www.TewWrites.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com price increase
by Ludmilla Lima Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I do not agree with .com price increase

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] NO THANK YOU
by C. Hoffmann Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Please don’t make sketchy deal behind closed doors. Do you realize how many people use the internet and how many people and small businesses own domains? They can be pricey enough, so please do not make this deal to raise .com prices! Thank you for listening. Chris

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Please do not allow Verisign to increase wholesale prices of .com domains.
by Jamal Khan Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Please do not allow Verisign to increase wholesale prices of .com domains. ------- [image: Namecheap] <http://mailtrackemailout1.namecheap.com/ls/click?upn=QqNWTFdMeHiLPmRAI5EzI5…> Help Us Avoid .COM Price Increases Hi there! We have important information <http://mailtrackemailout1.namecheap.com/ls/click?upn=QqNWTFdMeHiLPmRAI5EzI5…> to share with you that will affect the price of your .COM domains. What's happening? Last month, ICANN, the organization that oversees domain names, announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. who operate the .COM top-level-domain (TLD). ICANN made these changes in secret, without consulting or incorporating feedback from the ICANN community or Internet users. Although ICANN has a history of making similar deals behind closed doors, and also of ignoring unified opposition against such action, we are focused on leading the fight against price increases that will harm our customers (and the Internet as a whole). This is a crucial time to raise our voices given that *.COM domains make up 40% of all registered domain names online*. What does this change mean? Wholesale registries charge Namecheap a set fee per domain name per year. According to this new agreement, 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. This will mean that* .COM wholesale domain prices can grow by more than 70% over and above current prices over the next decade*. The contract also allows for other price increases, which could drive prices up further, ultimately making .COM domains less accessible and more expensive for everybody. Why is ICANN doing this? 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. So, what can you do to help? These changes will have significant impact on the Internet for years to come, and only ICANN and Verisign have participated in this decision. If you want to make sure your voice is heard, let ICANN know how you feel about their recent decision. *The Public Comment period <http://mailtrackemailout1.namecheap.com/ls/click?upn=QqNWTFdMeHiLPmRAI5EzI5…> is open until February 14, 2020.* You can leave your comment on the .COM proposal using ICANN's form <http://mailtrackemailout1.namecheap.com/ls/click?upn=QqNWTFdMeHiLPmRAI5EzI5…> . ----- Jamal Khan (219) 241-1915

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Horrible idea
by Nicholas Williams Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I do not want my domain prices to go up - Do not raise my costs Sent from my iPhone by Holly Williams

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

Feb. 10, 2020

Hello - I’d like to register my complaint with the back-room deal being worked out with Verisign. You are supposed to be operating with the public interest in mind, but this proposal indicates otherwise. Thanks, Jack Jack Johnson Cyberworlds Inc. 608-313-4232

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Please keep .COM prices down.
by FN LN Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

It’s important that .com names remain affordable. For the free enterprise of the American people and citizens of the world. This is important to help the internet thrive and grow as a global economy. Please keep .com prices down. Thank you.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Be honest
by Peter Zegler Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Please be honest. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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

Feb. 10, 2020

This situation does not make sense, not a bit. Did you know gas taxes are same for over 25 years? Stop it, get some help.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com extension price increment
by Peters Owolabi Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

To whom it may concern, I wish to express my displeasure towards the increment Verisign and Icann planning on .Com domain extension. Please be guided and considerate enough to take into consideration the evasive effect that this incrementioned will bring about. .COM extension is already high. Thank you.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com pricing changes
by Jessica Sterling Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Hello there, Small businesses depend on .com to have a presence on the web. Having your own website and not just something on social media adds legitimacy and allows you to have your own voice… independent and on-message. In a way, it is an issue of free speech. Please do not allow these proposed increases to occur and be prohibitive to small business. Thank you!

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] ICANN .com changes
by Nick Busey Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

The changes ICANN has announced around .com price increases and Verisign being allowed to operate a registrar are atrocious. There are many individuals such as myself who run a few dozen domain names. Allowing the prices to go up 70% over 10 years will make many of these smaller sites have to shut down out of financial necessity. This is another step towards the death of the distributed internet. -- Nick Busey

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Big money influencing the free web
by JT S Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

ICANN, This raising of prices on .COM domains is unjust and threatens the balance of a free and open world wide web. If anything ICANN should be fighting to protect the global public's interests no those of giant corporations. Verisign should not be allowed to monopolize the defacto default domain. .COM has and continues to be the most popular and trusted of domains. To allow corporate interest to behave as a rent seeking organization and siphon money off of the web is an affront to the global information community.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I am opposed to the Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Paula Fugaro Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

The Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement has been arrived at without any regard to the desires, wants or needs of the worldwide internet community, and instead has designed to fill the coffers of both ICANN and Verisign, at the expense of that very same worldwide community. Please do NOT implement the Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement as currently written. Regards, Paula Fugaro Trinitalian Enterprises LLC.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I am against Amendment 3
by Dustin Cooper Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

To whom this may concern, Raising the cost of .com domains, especially as laid out by proposed Amendment 3, is unacceptable. In a world where inequality is out of control, the last thing we need to do is charge more for access to technology that profoundly affects free speech. And those that are affected the most are the poor among us. So its a big no unless you want to offer free .com domains to those below the poverty level. If this amendment passes, then it will be time to raise up and fight back. Lets avoid more fighting and deny this amendment's time of day. Good day and do the right thing - Dustin

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Wack
by Cameron Wolfe Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Big gay bro. Big gay.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] No taxation without representation!
by Fredrik Krokstad Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

As an owner of several .com-domains, I feel it necessary to write to you in order to express my profound dissatisfaction with the proposed amendment 3 to the .COM registry agreement. Firstly, the fact that decisions which will affect the registrar- and consumer communities at large, are being made unilaterally and behind closed doors, is outrageous. Secondly, I fail to see how allowing Verisign Inc. to control the wholesale domain price in the coming years will benefit consumers. This proposal should be scrapped. Furthermore, representatives from the ICANN community and internet users should be appointed then allowed to participate in these decision-making processes in the future. Regards, Fredrik Krokstad

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Com price amendments
by Carl Kidwell Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Hello, I am an entrepreneur and software engineer. Over the past decade I have engaged in several small start up businesses and engaged in purchasing and maintaining .com domains to run my businesses. As with any start up I have operated at a loss . The cost of obtaining a domain is just one component required for an online business and increasing the price will reduce the likelihood that I will launch a new business website, or maintain ones that I own now. As you know our modern economy relies on a robust technology based startup culture- I feel allowing prices for domains to skyrocket as just one of the small components would stifle businesses and innovation and ask that you do not allow this or greatly restrict the rate at which costs can grow. The proposed 7% rate is far above inflation and the actual costs to maintain these names is already highly profitable.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Opposition to .com TLD price increases
by bekee Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I'm writing to record my opposition to the proposed changes in price increases for the .com TLD. I own several .com domains as a freelance website developer, developer in my community, and with clients and other prospects. To implement a price increase of something that is invariably not a tangible product in the eyes of the consumer (the website/app/presence at the domain is the product) without considering the needs of the internet community at large is irresponsible and sneaky. Rebecca Gibson gibson•works, llc

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Feedback on the Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Red Pepr - Registrations Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I am a registrant of a .com domain name. Multiple domains, in fact. Increasing prices hurt my ability to maintain an online presence. This is not in my (or anyone else's) best interest. Therefore, I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. >From everything I read, 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. Kindly act accordingly. Thomas Forrester Middleton, Wisconsin USA

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price increase for .com
by Andrew Larson Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I'm not happy about the proposed price increase for .com. It would be like increase fuel prices, it would hurt the economy. I recommend against it. Thank you. -- Andrew Larson, PT, DPT, MS, CMI UW-Madison DPT, Class of 2016 andrewlarson.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Amendment-3-03
by Michel Leger Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

To whom it may concern, I have just been made aware of the agreement "According to this new agreement, 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." that was done behind closed doors. This is really not fair to the .com community that no one has been able to say anything on this agreement. Things are already difficult enough just trying to survive the internet frenzy, trying to make things work. The internet was in the beginning supposed to be accessible to everyone. It is going to become un-affordable for the small business to be online anymore. It's always the big guy try to kill the small guy. What are you trying to do take us out of business. Please reconsider your actions so we can have a little piece of the pie also. Thank you for your time and consideration on this matter. Regard's Michel

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Verisign contract change will lead to tremendous price changes for .COM domains
by max＠moldmann.com Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

Please make decisions focused on price stability for end users! Sincerely Max Moldmann Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com price increases
by P Grim Feb. 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020

I have owned several .com domain names for over 20 years now, so I am angered and perplexed that ICANN and Verisign have colluded to increase prices without any community input or third party oversight. I strongly urge you to reconsider this decision, which reflects poorly on both organizations and undermines their credibility. Thank you for your consideration.

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

Feb. 10, 2020

I oppose any changes to the .COM registry agreement that will lead to unneeded price increases. I especially oppose the negotiation of such agreements behind closed doors, and without the input of the community around ICANN and the registrars. ICANN needs to begin a community-led process to recommend any changes to such agreements. --rt

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