[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Objection to Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement

[Activist Lore]

I am writing to object to the proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry 
Agreement.  As an information professional working in memory 
institutions and guided by the core principles of librarianship (see 
American Library Association at 
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/corevalues), I am distressed  
over the impact on accessibility this change has.  The domain names 
people are most comfortable and familiar with are those that end in 
.com.  This makes them the most accessible domains, and by increasing 
the cost of a .com domain name, you limit who can afford to own one.  
This further redistributes accessibility, and with it power, into the 
hands of the already wealthy and powerful, depriving the common person 
of the powerful tool the Internet has been.  It relegates them to the 
margins, where their voice is minimized or unheard.

Moreover, I am concerned about the conflict of interest inherit in 
Verisign operating as a domain registrar, especially with the influence 
Verisign has over domain registration pricing.  These are untenable 
propositions, and I urge you to reject this proposed amendment.

Sincerely,
Mahogany Lore

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