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

[ASI Domains]

ICANN should not grant Verisign wholesale .COM domain name price increases.

As a small, internet-base, business, annual registration of my domain 
names is an unavoidable cost of doing business.  I rely on ICANN to play 
their role of a non-profit entity with responsibility for fair domain 
name management.

By granting Verisign the right to virtually print money with annual 
price raises having no basis in need to cover growing costs, service 
expansion, or other relevant costs, ICANN is not fulfilling its role.  
Verisign, and any other business, needs to be profitable, but with known 
low costs, current profitability, and no valid reason for higher pricing 
on .COM domain names, the cost to registrants like myself should not 
increase.

If ICANN is receiving money from Verisign to push through new pricing 
and more lax regulation on them, I would like to know how that can not 
be called a bribe.  With the past 6 months' events in the USA, I would 
think the term "quid pro quo" should be discussed and considered at 
ICANN before selling out all us registrants that rely on simple domain 
name registrations for survival of our businesses.

Paul Kautz, Active Source, Inc.