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Please do not increase the price of .com's As a senior citizen the income I receive is fixed. I have a lot of .com's and it will be hard for seniors to keep up with the rising costs of living as it is.
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<br>Thanks,
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Deb St. George
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debstgeorge@comcast.net
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On January 3, 2020, ICANN announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. to operate the top-level domain .COM.
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ICANN and Verisign made these changes in secret, without consulting or incorporating feedback from the ICANN community or Internet users.
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Although ICANN has a history of making similar deals behind closed doors, and also of
<a href="https://www.namecheap.com/blog/ensuring-icann-keep-domain-prices-in-check/">ignoring unified opposition against such action</a>, Namecheap will continue to lead the fight against price increases that will harm our customers and the Internet as a whole. (For more information about Namecheap’s efforts to maintain domain name price controls, visit
<a href="http://pricecaps.org/">pricecaps.org</a>.)
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