PS. Please do NOT publish my contact information. You are NOT authorized to do so. Thank you. Nina O. Day
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From: "Nina O. Day" <ninaoday@gmail.com> Subject: proposed .com pricing changes Date: February 10, 2020 at 5:39:55 PM EST To: comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20@icann.org
Dear Sirs/Madams, I am concerned about this amendment to the Registry Agreement because it will affect, not just me, but any individual who would like his/her own domain name. This would impose a burden on a huge number of small businesses as well as individual users who have purchased domain names for personal use, not commercial use. Some have multiple domain names, if for no other reason than to protect our own names from being used to run a website.
Please at least consider a regulation that would charge businesses more and small businesses or individuals less. This would also allow fledgling businesses (aka startups) to keep their costs low at first. Remember, many businesses have been started in individual's garages.
You may also assume that all ".com" domain names are used for or are supposed to be used for commercial purposes. But this is not the case. If this had been defined and enforced from the beginning of the internet, this would be a non-issue. However, enforcing it today would cause many many individuals to lose their domains. Yes, there are other top level domains they can move to. However, that doesn't eliminate the fact that they would be losing an asset they had invested much time, money and resources acquiring and building.
Please keep the annual fee very low or consider a more flexible charging system for the .COM top level domain that will keep it accessible to individuals and small businesses.
Thank you,
Nina O. Day