[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .COM price increase amendment

[John Kitchen]

Hello,

I am very disappointed to learn today that ICANN has made a secret deal
with Verisign, to benefit both parties financially, to the detriment of
internet users and in particular small businesses, worldwide.

Small businesses rely on being able to utilize the .com TLD as a trusted
way for their customers to reach them online. ICANN's self-serving deal
with Verisign means that retaining .com domains, will be approximately 70%
more cost prohibitive over the next 10 years. This deal makes .com domains
less accessible and more expensive for everybody. It is a bad deal for
everyone except ICANN and Verisign.

This secret deal is contrary to ICANN's remit, which in part is to
maintain, not reduce competition in the domain marketplace.

Please consider scrapping these planned changes.

Kind regards,

John Kitchen
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