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

[Hac Phan]

Hi -

As an owner of multiple .com domains, I disagree with the direction ICANN
is taking with Verisign. Ultimately, my disagreement centers around two
points:

   1. Verisign should *not* be able to operate as its own Domain Registrar
   - Even though Verisign will not be able to sell .com domains directly,
      should Verisign choose to partner with a specific registrar, that partner
      would get preferential pricing/treatment
      - As the controller of .com domain prices, Verisign should not be
      anywhere near the market of selling these domain names
   2. The rate of price increases far exceed standard inflation rates.
   There's really no reason to increase the price of a digital good. Since any
   operating costs of Verisign to operate the .com domains may increase along
   with inflation, I don't see why the 7% annual rate is the chosen number.
   This is not to mention that, as technology improves, one would expect
   operating costs of Verisign to decrease as well

I hope that ICANN will not ignore my comments to this proposed amendment.
>From the outsider, this looks like collusion between ICANN and Verisign.
Verisign is getting preferential treatment and additional freedoms in
exchange for a one time payment of $20M.

Thanks,

-- 
Hac Phan
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