[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] ICANN - Verisign .COM agreement opposition

Larry Nelson ln at spintra.net
Tue Feb 11 17:45:28 UTC 2020


Proposed changes in the administration and pricing of .COM domains should be
withdrawn.  The proposed agreement was negotiated in secret by ICANN and
Verisign.  

 

Verisign gains the ability to raise prices far beyond reasonable limits and
could even operate through a puppet registrar to gain an unfair advantage in
domain sales.  

 

ICANN should not be swayed by the extra $20 million in revenue it will gain
over the next five years.  This has every appearance of a kickback.  With
full transparency, ICANN needs to explain the exact purpose and use of these
new funds.

 

.COM domains are a public benefit.  Any changes to the administration of
those domains should be negotiated in the light of day with input from all
interested parties.

 

This comment is written by a real human being at a real keyboard.  Do not
discount this comment as spam as ICANN did for many comments in the recent
.ORG discussion.

 

Larry Nelson

 

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