[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] STOP .com price increases
Chris Lessley
gripfastistech at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 03:28:37 UTC 2020
Please reconsider unilateral price increases of domain registrations,
eg, .com, .org, and other domain registrations with the ICANN agreement
with Verisign.
Verisign for years has had an unhealthy relationship between the free
internet and SSL encryption and is poised as a potential abuser in
raising domain registration fees in a closed-door manner as explained by
Namecheap here: ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money by
Richard Kirkendall (url:
https://www.namecheap.com/blog/icann-allows-com-price-increases-gets-more-money)
As an independent web developer and small host re-seller this type of
action harms the private entrepreneur and ultimately the consumer aka
"the little guy" and only continues the monopolistic trend in outrageous
attempts at controlling the Internet by the likes of Google, Amazon,
Comcast and others with no real reason beyond profits and surveillance
programs. These actions further harm the future of a free and
independent Internet as power consolidates into a few large corporations
with no oversight and fewer moral reserves.
No one should control the Internet and no one entity should control
large portions of the DNS, domain and other core technologies behind the
Internet, including pricing. The free market should complete for pricing
of domain names and raising pricing in the ways described by Namecheap
is alarming of the first nature.
Please stop this action and consult the EFF.org and DenadProgress.org in
ways solutions can be created without further damaging consumer wallets
at best and the freedom of the Internet at worst.
Sincerely, and most concerned.
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