[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] COMMENT: ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases

[Nathan Tendai Shava]

Having read the Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement, as a
Service Provider and IT Specialist I would like to express my deepest
concerns and provide strong disagreement regarding this proposal.

ICANN and Verisign made these changes in secret, without consulting or
incorporating feedback from the ICANN community or Internet users which
will affect the way business is conducted and prejudice a lot of clients
and internet users.

With non-consensual price increases to services comes consequences such as
a decline in usage and growth, negative feedback from market stakeholders
which will lead to higher dis-popularity with the TLD .COM domains.

These have been the main revenue generator in the TLD space making up 40%+
of all internet domains and going through with the proposed amendments can
lead to a 50% drop in those numbers should users feel betrayed and
manipulated without having been afforded the opportunity to have their
voices heard.

The Way Forward

It is ICANN and Verisign's responsibility to ultimately bring all
stakeholders to the table in deciding whether or not to go through with the
proposed amendment through a voting system as well as agree or disagree on
the proposed rates of increase on an annual basis.

I, however, am against this proposal bearing in mind that domain
registration fees are not really the ultimate cost one incurs in this space
but all other subsequent hosting and service fees would render business in
this space useless.

*Regards,*


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Nathan Shava

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