[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM domain price increases.

[Bobbi Shaw]

I have owned a multitude of domains throughout the last two decades, many of which have been .com domains.  I currently own a number of .com domains that I use for personal, small art and craft related businesses as well as personal projects. As a small business owner, domain registration and renewal already costs a great deal. If these prices were to increase as much as proposed in upcoming years, this will seriously become detrimental to people like me. Higher costs may not be as much of an issue for those who own large businesses.

We already have a large problem with the internet being taken over by businesses and the corporate world. Rather, relegating the average person to social media.  These price increases will only continue to hurt people like me and keep more of us away from domain ownership as well as hobbyist website design. Of course, we can always purchase another extension. However, this is often detrimental to our customers and visitors as .com is often the assumed and commonly-used extension, causing greater difficulty for our customers or visitors to find our websites. In an era of decreased attention due to social media, this makes connections especially difficult.

Thank you for your consideration.

- Bobbi Shaw (domain owner, web developer, and artist)
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