[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Increasing the cost of .com registration is damaging to the internet

The proposed amendment to ICANN's agreement with Verisign was arranged unfairly and will be damaging to the internet as a whole. The .com domains account for 40% of all internet domains and the effect will be to increase costs of registering these domains by 70% over the next decade. No doubt ICANN executives would like to receive $20 million dollars for quietly making this agreement, with no strings attached and no accountability. But ICANN should have the welfare of the internet in mind and not accept these bribes from large corporations which stand to benefit enormously from these changes by enacting huge price increases. - Marc Culler