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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Zeste PL 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. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. Ms Tay Singapore Sent from my iPhone

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Paul Mockapetris 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. Paul Mockapetris Seal Beach, CA

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price Increase
by Rayyan Abdi Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I 100% object to such a price increase. Preserve Amendment 32 for the people!!

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM Registry Agreement - Yearly increase of fees.
by Stu Buckingham Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

As a consumer of your .COM services, I see absolutely no reason or benefit for having the terms of the agreement to be amended from the current position to annual increases. What is the benefit to me as the consumer? Basically none. In fact it makes it incrementally more expensive, without any benefit. It's a wholeheartedly a disgrace. To which I thank you for asking for my feedback. rgds Stu Buckingham Director Name Trader Inc

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

Feb. 8, 2020

Greetings, I am opposed to the rate hike! 7 - 9 dollars per month for a domain name is plenty! For small business and individuals income and pay increases have not kept up with inflation for a long time. While 7-9 dollars /month doesn't sound expensive - when, added up for the entire year it adds up. By increasing the cost for a domain the cost for practically every business in the United States will increase! This will hurt small business the most. This move to increased domain prices will be a move to further push small businesses or if business and will push individual and families away from personal web sites. This is a stupid move and only benefits big businesses at the expense of everyone's else. Please reconsider, Martin Shepherd Cedar Park, TX 78613

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

Feb. 8, 2020

I am associated with the secondary market in domain names. 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. David Fry Burnaby, British Columbia Canada

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] (no subject)
by koti arun kumar Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

no

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Kittu . 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. Babji Jubilee Hills, Telangana India Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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

Feb. 8, 2020

I am associated with the secondary market in domain names. 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. sulaiman Albassam Kuwait city Sulaiman AlBassam

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

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a registrant of many .com domain names for personal and business use. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. There is no reason to having an ever increasing domain name price that is way greater then inflation. Please help stop these unjustifiable price increases, & support the average hard working customer!

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] About dot com domain price rising
by Mp Sandhu Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

The domains are already being black marketed by some domain registrars, one have to research for cheapest registrar to get the right price, if one registrar gives cheap registration then he takes three time price at renewal. So customers are already being looted by these types of registrars. My opinion is, if you decide to rise the price of domains then give your time to regulate these types of renewal loots. Regards

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by yzb 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. Tao Hefei, Anhui China

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Leander Timoshenko 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. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. Leander Timoshenko

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

Feb. 8, 2020

Hello, I am associated with a registry. 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. David Ebene CyberCity

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by musprint＠yahoo.com 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. No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices. Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry %2�� it has no business dictating the price. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. Ahmed Saleh Cairo, Cairo Governorate Egypt

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

Feb. 8, 2020

Dear Sirs I am associated with the secondary market in domain names. 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. When in history did the grass roots stakeholders ever recommend or discuss the abdication of registry pricing oversight for legacy gTLDs? The new gTLD agreement was created for new extensions not the preexisting registries. Why would ICANN accept $20m from Verisign in what appears to be grease money to ensure they can rip off .COM registrants of BILLIONS of dollars? We registrants always expected ICANN would continue its management of legacy registries in the interests of its constituents, not aid and abet a virtual monopoly by abdictation of reasonable pricing management. It's not too late to admit mistakes have been made on all legacy gTLDs registry renewals and reverse both. ORG and. COM price control oversight. Thank you Dr. Gregg McNair Panama City Dr.Gregg McNair Group Chairman Premium Traffic Limited Panama E: ggg(a)PTL.com C: +1 512 698 0407 S: gemcnair

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Comment on Amendment 3
by John Smith Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

Prices are just fine the way they are. The lower they are, the more democratic it allows the internet to be. If there are to be any price increases, they should be pegged to the rate of inflation.

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

Feb. 8, 2020

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Against the proposed price increase.
by Ronak Patel Feb. 8, 2020

Feb. 8, 2020

I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. There should not be monopoly in this market. Regards, Ronak India

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by chandan 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. chandan Bengaluru, Karnataka India

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] increase in .com pricing
by nigerian weadding clothes 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 $14.99 is already far more than justified. Other registries such as .uk are much cheaper even though they benefit from less economies of scale than .com 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. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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

Feb. 8, 2020

I am a domain investor. No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices. There is obviously no stakeholder outcry to increase prices on registrants. Registrants themselves obviously don’t want to pay more. So who does the proposed price increase stand to benefit? Only Verisign. It stands to reap billions of dollars more, all paid for by registrants, and for no genuine reason whatsoever. If the proposed fee increases go into effect, by the end of the six-year agreement term, the fee for each .com domain name will increase to $10.29 per year, a 30% jump from current levels. Even conservatively assuming that in six years’ time there are only 140 million .com domain name registrants, that increase of $2.44 per year, per domain name, would result in $341,000,000 more revenue for Verisign per year. Verisign already enjoys an incredible operating margin of around 60%. By any reasonable estimation, Verisign is not suffering for lack of revenue nor is it deserving of increased revenue. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. If ICANN is to be trusted as the steward of the .COM Registry on behalf of the global public interest, ICANN must ask itself why it would effectively hand over billions of dollars in registrant money to its contracted service provider? Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry – it has no business dictating the price, particularly when it is already handsomely paid and others could do it for far less. As we saw with the .Org Fiasco, bad things happen when a registry operator treats the registry as an asset that belongs to it, rather than acting as a mere contracted manager. If there was ever any hope that the new gTLDs would present effective competition to .COM so that prices would naturally be constrained by market forces, the results are in and it didn’t happen. Because of Verisign’s market power, and in the absence of putting the .COM Registry out for bid, price caps are necessary to protect the public from Verisign’s ability to abuse its market power by raising prices far above levels that would exist in a market where there was effective competition. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. I want you to do so. I want you to look out for registrant interests in particular, not your service provider’s financial interests. Setting prices is a policy matter when it comes to the .COM Registry. If ICANN intended to adopt such a radical policy of permitting Verisign to set its own prices, that is a matter for stakeholders to determine, and there has never been any such policy development nor agreement among stakeholders. Michael Sumner Maryland, USA

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

Feb. 8, 2020

To Whom It May Concern, I am a registrant of a .com domain name, actually 57 .com domain names, some of which are for sale because they no longer have websites. Some domains are portfolios and some are attached to online shops. 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. If the price does go up, I will likely have to decide which domains I will not renew, and move forward from there. Others will likely do the same. Linda Carruth Cleveland, Ohio United States L W Wallace Co 216.459.8303 Graphic Solutions for Business and Industry http://lwwallace.com

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by 홍영진 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. Hong young jin Daegu, Daegu South Korea

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[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
by Allen Furrer 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. Allen Furrer Brookston, IN

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