[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Please, do not raise the .com domain names.

[Jean-David Roth]

Hi everybody,

I own several .com domain names, (around 30 I think) among several other
ones with different extensions.
Therefore if you increase your prices for .com, I may be in high
difficulties to continue with my solo entrepreneur endeavors, which are
already difficult.

Also, I think that with the improvement of technology, domain names should
not become more expensive over time, but on the contrary cheaper.

The price of servers is decreasing year after year, for a given
capabilities (if you compare servers with same bandwidth, memory, HD, etc. )
Therefore, even if there is more and more domain names to administer, I
don't really think you need to increase the prices. You may in fact
decrease them.
I would therefore see any endeavors to increase the .com domain names
prices as unfair, and, especially if you do not respond to this email to
justify your point, I would be critical of the companies responsible for
such increases.

I have also seen some other extensions raising their prices, and i had for
instance to get rid of several .space domain names I owned due to an
increase in prices.
And therefore I am a bit angry to the people at .space, because, being
there at their very start, I helped them, but finally they did not help me.

Price increases would hit the .com in my opinion and perhaps not make you
richer, because it might end up in people discontinuing their .com
.com might even lose a part of its historical comparative advantage over
other extensions.
In case I hear of .com real price increases, I may also try to obtain
states intervention to try to ask you not to take this direction, because I
would see it like being profiting from a monopoly position.

If you do not increase your prices, on the other hand, I will keep a good
image/feeling about Icann, Verisign, and all companies involved.

I know my English writing is not perfect, since it is not my mother tongue,
and I apologize for that. Nevertheless, I felt I should let you know how I
feel about all this, and it wasn't easy for me to do.

Please hand this email to your hierarchy, so that it reaches the decision
makers about these matters. I think I represent well what other people may
think about this, if they were aware of price increases risks for .com

Have a nice day, and thanks for listening

Jean-David Roth
17 chemin des Marais
1234 Vessy
Switzerland.
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