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<p class="copy-161"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">Why is ICANN making these changes in secret? It should consult and incorporate feedback from the ICANN community or Internet users.<br>
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The new agreement allowing Verisign to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains every year for 8 out of the next 10 years is just greedy and unethical. The contract also allows for other price increases, which could drive prices up further,
ultimately making .COM domains less accessible and more expensive for everybody.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="copy-16-lt1"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#666261">With regard to
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Verisign agreeing to pay ICANN an additional $20 million dollars over five years to support</span></strong> ICANN's domain name system initiatives, there should be clarity about how ICANN will spend the
money, or who will ensure that the funds are properly spent on domain infrastructure..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tom</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">How can you do the most good? Using evidence and reason to help others as much as possible -
<a href="https://www.effectivealtruism.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Effective Altruism</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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