[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Public comment on .com increases

Robert Minton robert at disturbance.io
Tue Feb 11 00:02:36 UTC 2020


As a small business owner, with a few .com addresses required to make ends meat, any increase in the yearly pricing for domaine names means an increased burden  or expense.

1st: it puts a larger burden on small business than major corporate entities.  For multi-million dollar companies, $5, $20, $50, a year not a big deal.  For small business every dollar counts.  Along with other rising costs, it starts to make one think twice about developing a new website that you hope will make money in year 2 or 3, hurting potential innovation from the small guy. A tiered increase based on the size of your business would be a much better plan, making larger business carry more of the burden.  

2nd, it restricts buying domaines for new ventures or projects.

3rd:  Makes it harder to protect your trademarked or service mark, through buying the .com, .net, .biz, etc., which is often required today to protect scam artist and traffic stealers from surrounding you and trolling for you customers.  

In this day an age, many use the internet to host a resume, a portfolio, etc., again major increases over time push individuals away from doing this and have them look for alternate or service to do these types of things on their own .com address.
Maybe another item for consideration would be raising fee yearly if one sits on a .com address.  By requiring a .com owner to have at least a one page website with contact info on it, many of those who sit on .com addresses trying to charge high dollars to release them would stop.  Fee increases could improve the internet if done correctly.

Thanks



Robert  - Founder & CEO
Disturbance Marketing Inc.
Marketing & Brand Strategy
www.disturbance.io




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