[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] This is unacceptable

[Karthik Vijayakumar]

I have been a consumer and creator on the internet for over two decades. The internet has only become more open and accommodating to people over these years. Getting a domain name for a business is the first step for any business to register its online presence. Many of these businesses are small. A good number of them are reluctant to get online, but agree to do it after seeing how it’s helping other businesses. Increasing the prices of .COM domain names, which are the fundamental domain name for businesses, takes internet back by many years. It will make the internet less attractive because many cannot afford these high costs. As a leading authority in the internet, ICANN is setting a wrong example for other internet-enabling companies to follow suit and increase prices. Please stop this. Don’t take internet back to the dark ages.