[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] I understand why but... this is hard to take.

[Cats Meow]

I went thru the hassle of letting Windows have access to my Gmail
account just so that I could participate in this discussion.  Then,
once I knew which email to sent, I disconnected.  Btw, it's:

comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20 at icann.org

Anyway, I didn’t want to at first, because hassle, but then I realized
that if I let this hassle deter me, it means my desire for convenience
scored a victory for you, because that’s what you’re hoping for,
right?  That the hassle of switching to other dot extensions would be
too inconvenient and most of us would just pay more.

It's a pretty good strategy.  But, anyway, I won’t be one of the
“most”, even if I could afford the increases comfortably.  Instead,
with every dollar increase, I will use it as impetus to increase my
capacity to deal with “hassles”.

See, 30% of my dot coms are just redirect domains and domains maybe I
will use properly in the future.  With every dollar increase, I will…
minimize (as in minimalism) and get rid of some of them.

Once, I’ve culled the 30% (with your encouragement), I will use
further increases to… diversify to other dot extensions.   Or heck,
just switch everything to Facebook or Instagram.  Social media is
gobbling up most of the traffic anyway.

Besides, smartphone screens are so small that people can’t even see if
the site has a dot com, and well – considering the extremely limited
character space, it’s probably prudent to go with dot extensions which
forms the last bit of the website’s name.  Ex. Instead of Amazon.com,
it’s just Ama.zon .

Minimalism applies to domains as well, don’t you think?  And hassles
and inconveniences can be turned into opportunities for
self-betterment.