Dear Sir,
I am a small entrepreneur and I own few domain names with .com,
.org, .info, .biz and other. The truth is that my "brand" domains
are only three and the only top level domain I truly care about is
.com. But I don't own just three domains I had to own many other
combinations of tld. and hyphenated version of my "brands" to fight
dns scams...
That is the reality of nowadays internet. I am certain that your
effort to remove price caps is for nothing else but a greedy deal
with Verizon BUT even if you try to argument that the reason for
raising prices is exactly to tackle the problem with dns speculators
- you are wrong.
No matter how high the price for a domain will go, there will be
always speculators holding as a hostage any brand-able names trying
to resell it for an absurd amount of money. Also there will be
always a crook attempting of dns scam using a very similar domain to
lure visitors from proper domains (e.g. mymail.com vs my-mail.com vs
mymail.biz etc.). So every buyer of a new domain name will have to
protect himself buy buying out a bulk of otherwise useless domains
to just avoid all of these problems.
At the end the only one able to fight on this battlefield will be
big companies - it is already almost impossible to came up with some
free distinguishable name for a domain name - the internet is over
saturated and new business are starting each day.
Maybe that is the reason why I already decided to move my brands to
.xyz but .com is overwhelmingly dominant as of now and will be for
some time still.
Your move to remove price caps will hurt only little people like me
- I am not worry that google, microsoft, facebook and any other big
name will have an issue to pay whatever price for... well whatever.
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Best regards /
S pozdravem
Petr Ospalý