Feb. 8, 2020
10:27 a.m.
I own a couple of hundred domain names and run a small business based on that as a domainer (domains investor). I am against the proposed price increase for .COM domains. I do not see any obvious reason for the cost to run the registry to increase. Technology gets cheaper when scaled and the number of registrations is still increasing. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. I see this as rent-seeking by Verisign. This will further cripple the domain industry. The current rate of $7.85 is already more than justified. Please help stop these unjustifiable price increases and support the average customer.