[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] (no subject)

[Diane Cook Sturges]

Dear Madam, or Sir,
  I am concerned about this amendment to the Registry Agreement because it
will affect, not just me, buy any individual who would like their own
domain name.  I am 100% sure that no corporation will object to the 28%
cost increase every six years as they earn money off their domain name and
paying almost any amount would be acceptable to them.  However, there are a
great deal of small businesses that would see this as a burden as well as
individual users out there that have purchased their own domain name and
are using it for personal use, not commercial use.  Several of us have
multiple domain names, if for no other reason than to protect our own names
from being used to run a website.

You may also assume that all ".com" domain names are used for, or are
supposed to be used for commercial purposes, however, this is not the case
today.  If this had been defined and enforced from the beginning of the
internet, this would be a non-issue, however, to start 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 alleviate
the fact that they would be losing an asset they had invested much time,
money, and resources acquiring.

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,

Diane Cook Sturges
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