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

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a domainer (I invest in domain names as a business). 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. Amiens Rivers, Nigeria. Best regards, Aimievbiye Igbinidu. aimiensi(a)gmail.com.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Vehemently Opposed To The Proposal
by Tom M Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

There is zero justification for this price increase and as such am totally opposed. Please spend more time and resources on tackling domain squatters, the large companies buying up and reselling hundreds of thousands of domains for scandalous amounts (often 1000%+ markup) - This is a far greater matter than than even considering granting Verisign an increase to domain registration fees, it's nothing more than a money grab that does not bring additional value to .com domain owners.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] No to Price rise for COM
by Keysome LLC Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I will have to quit business if there is price increase in COM. Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM price increase
by Ahmad Awais Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I own a couple of hundred domain names and run a small business based on that as a domainer (domains investor). I am against the proposed price increase for .COM domains. I do not see any obvious reason for the cost to run the registry to increase. Technology gets cheaper when scaled and the number of registrations is still increasing. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. I see this as rent-seeking by Verisign. This will further cripple the domain industry. The current rate of $7.85 is already more than justified. Please help stop these unjustifiable price increases and support the average customer.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Ritesh Kumar 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. Ritesh Kumar Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi India

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

Feb. 8, 2020

I am against the price increase. There is no increase in value that I get out of paying more which would justify such a step. Also, the intended max cap of 10.26 per domain would mean a price increase of a whopping 30,7%!!!!!! This is entirely out of proportion, stop this please!

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

Feb. 8, 2020

Hello, I am a domainer (I invest in domain names as a business). I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. 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. Mohammad Mahdi Saffari Portland

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com prices
by Víctor Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

These are questionable reasons to upper the prices. Do not do it.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Request to stop price hiking of .COM
by Laxmikant Bhumkar Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Hi team ICANN, I'm registrant of .COM domains. I think the current prices are sufficient. If the domain registrar (TLD manager) is not able to maintain the current .COM then kindly change the TLD registrar. Thanks & Regards, Laxmikant S Bhumkar India.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Dot Com Price hike
by Jameel Ahmed Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Hi, i wanted to register my voice for the concern. This price hike makes no sense to me as the internet and dns were made for public use and now charging it without apparent reason isn't good. Charging a virtual which isn't not different from what it was in 1990s is lame. I am against it and it must not be approved.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement not cool.
by Dan R Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Hello there, 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. Let's keep .com available at its current price. Dan R Stewartsville, New Jersey United States

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Don't allow the price increase
by Stephanos Angelakos Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Hi there, I'm the CEO of an advertising agency in Germany. A price increase in the .COM TLD would result in us cancelling all "typo" domains (hundreds of .com domains we have registered for our clients which consider the most common typos and redirect to the correct .com domains). So in the end, despite a price increase, I guarantee you that the revenues with the .com TLD would drop dramatically. Is this what you want? Cheers, Stephanos

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Ganes Thapa 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. Ganesh Thapa Kathmandu, Province 3 Nepal

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] What are the numbers behind this increase?
by George G Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I recently ran an analysis for https://hostingchecker.com and we found more than 144 million registered active .com domain names. Zonefiles.io <https://zonefiles.io/> also have a database and it says currently there are 144,072,905 registered .com domain names. Multiply this number by the annual .com fee and you will get a very high number. You are not supposed to be a corporation and push your profits to the maximum but rather keep the internet safe and accessible place to all. How do you justify the increase in the .com domain names price? What is this huge budget spend on? How was it possible to run the organization 10 years ago when the domain names were significantly lower amount? My opinion is that the price should not only stay the same but even decrease over time with more people buying .com domains. Please share a link of a document where the increase is justified by numbers. Regards, George Georgiev

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Hunter Jeroe 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. Hunter Norwich, England United Kingdom

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

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a registrant of a few .com domain names. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. Please maintain the price. Andy Lim Seremban, Malaysia

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Ahsan 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. ICANN should be working to bring the cost down instead of looking at gouging customers with a price hike. Ahsan Ottawa, Ontario Canada

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Some ideas and suggestions on this document.
by D S Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Dear ICCAN I am a personal webmaster from China, I just learned about COM's proposal to raise prices every year. This is not good for many personal webmasters. For example, if a person wants to set up a blog and he wants to register a com domain name, his website construction cost will also rise because of the com price increase, which will eventually cause him to close his personal website because his personal website will Have any income. This is not what we want to see, we hope to see a more accessible registration price. With the increasing popularity of the Internet today, we should lower the threshold for personal website building, not raise him. Naturally, the com domain name as a representative should not increase prices. We respect this proposal, but in today's environment, this proposal seems inappropriate. I hope ICCAN will take a closer look at the current background and the applicability of this document. Thank you. Dong Shuai 发送自 Windows 10 版邮件<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986>应用

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com
by Shiny Domains Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

There is no any kind of justification for increases .com prices. Actually you would have done much better move if you decrease .com prices. As far as I am concerned the increase of .com prices would force me to find other extensions to register.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Monika Kucic 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. Monika Kučić Rijeka, Croatia

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] (no subject)
by etinosa omorodion Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I personally believe it's a bad idea rather the price of .com should decrease continually each year. That's my submission.

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

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a domainer (I invest in domain names as a business). I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. Vijai P S Dubai, Dubai United Arab Emirates

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Against the proposed Price Increase.
by Pallav Nawani Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

The proposed amendment will make it difficult for small enterprises to own .com domains. Many individuals rely on the internet to offer services, including freelancing, and this will just make it harder to make a living across the board. This will hurt people from the developing nations more, since their currencies are weaker against the dollar. There is really no reason whatsoever to increase prices on a yearly basis, Verisign is merely the registrar and not the owner of the domain. Furthermore, once this proposal goes through, the floodgates will open and everyone will try to increase prices on all domains on a regular basis. The internet will quickly become un-democratic and will only be dominated by bigger corporations. -- *Pallav Nawani* Ironcode Gaming --- Website: http://www.ironcode.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com price increase
by Stevan Uldid Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Hello, Make .com cheaper instead of more expensive. All the good names are gone. So higher pricing for trash domains doesn't seems to work. People are moving towards new gtlds. Demand will fall for .com. Thank you.

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Annual Increase In .Com TLD
by Dennis Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Dear Sir/Madam, It has been my experience that annual increases to services aren't always beneficial to the end user and in the case of the .COM TLD, it is my believe that any annual increase to this TLD would seriously affect a large no of .COM users within a few very short years. The question that needs to be asked here is at what point do we stop screwing people with excessive annual rate rises because we can and because Profit is the all important goal of our over taxed, profit only focused society. In the opinion of the writer, annual rises in .COM TLD's are not necessarily desirable, however perhaps a bi-annual review might be acceptable as long as any increase was kept at a reasonable level and not applied just because you can, solely to increase profits. Any increase would need to show that there is just cause and need for the increase. Yours sincerely DP

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