[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement

[Adam Strohl]

Hello ICANN,

As an Internet-focused MSP that manages hundreds of customers servers 
and thousands of domains I am extremely concerned by this proposal and 
the limited number of parties that came up with it -- namely Verisign 
and ICANN.

This proposal represents, in my view, a catastrophic weakening of the 
rules designed to keep the domain system fair and affordable.

I remember in the early 1990s when domains were hundreds of dollars per 
year to register simply because ONE company had a stranglehold on it 
(Network Solutions).  Returning to this kind of absurd price gouging is 
not what the Internet needs in 2020. Especially when there is no clarify 
on where this money will be directed to and how it will be managed.

Any change like this needs to come from a broad discussion, not just 
ICANN and Verisgn. Our entire industry and by extensions our customers 
will be affected by this.  In 2020 that's *everyone* because *everyone* 
is on the Internet.

-- 

Adam Strohl
A-Team Systems | President & CTO

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