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

[r.parker at whoozie.com]

The foundation of unbridled innovation underpinning the Internet begins with
the low cost of entry for the basic TLDs. While your financial models may
indicate that raising domain prices will not affect business costs much,
you're neglecting how the existing, very low cost of entry could be
considered the one of the lowest cost barriers to entry in the history of
free enterprise and free expression. 

 

Ratcheting up the fees for domains will begin to affect innovation
immediately. In the long run, raising the price of a domain will stifle
innovation. You may not think so but the low cost of domains allows for an
infinite amount of very low budget experimenting and testing. While most of
this activity goes nowhere, this still leads to ideas that do spurn
innovation and business expansion. 

 

We're already treated to significantly higher costs for the so-called vanity
or boutique TLDs, please don't ruin the foundation of the Internet but
raising the cost of ordinary domains. Don't go down this route. The
consequences will not be good for the entire planet.

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