[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Please reconsider your changes to the Verisign contract!

Dan Littman dan at significantlysuccessful.com
Mon Feb 10 22:35:11 UTC 2020


Hi, as a small business owner where every penny counts, and relying on the
internet as our marketplace, increasing the cost of domain names will have
far reaching effects.  I just ask that both you and Verisign be more
transparent and fair in what you're putting together.

 

In an age of dwindling accountability and transparency by the government,
the people are looking for companies and leaders that give us the respect to
do the right thing, even when nobody's looking.

 

My concerns specifically are:

 

1.      Large price increases over the next 10 years.

2.      What the $20 million from Verisign will be used for.

3.      Why you're breaking your own rules or allowing for a loophole to
allow Verisign, an operator of a TLD, to act as a registrar.

4.      The fact that you ignored previous comments that overwhelmingly
favored not removing the price controls on other TLD's, and removed the
price caps based on an analysis by an economics professor that didn't
reference any data.

 

I hope someone takes the time to read this and actually cares enough to
rethink this strategy, as it will not be a good PR move for ICANN or
Verisign if it goes into effect in its current form, as it wreaks of abuse
of power at the expense of nearly everyone.

 

Kind regards,

Dan Littman

 

 

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