[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed changes to .com pricing and Verisign contract

[Ashwin Sridhar]

Hi,

I’m writing to express my views on the proposed changes in the contract between Verisign and ICAAN.

- There appears to be no transparency in the process
- Prices of .com domains are going to go up 8 of the 10 years
- There is no clarity on how ICAAN intends to spend $20m in additional funds that it will receive from Verisign over the next 5 years

The price increase proposed are outragious and not inline with inflation or increase in real wages (both of which have been stubbornly low).

Ashwin