Feb. 10, 2020
11:08 p.m.
As someone who owns a few web domains, I am concerned by the recent proposal to change the .com administration contract with Verisign. I understand that freezing the prices of .com domains indefinitely is not reasonable, since inflation is a concern in the long term. However, the proposed terms do not simply index wholesale domain prices to inflation or anything along those lines. To me, it looks like a possibly corrupt move to let Verisign raise rent on internet users in exchange for Verisign shelling out an extra $20 million to ICANN. Please don't give a government-granted monopoly more freedom to raise prices without adequate oversight and reasonable cause. --Rome R.