[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] .com domain pricing

[Steven Chanin]

ICANN has a monopoly on .com domains and they are administered by Verisign with no competition. Allowing Verisign to raise prices is only going to have only one outcome — prices will increase at the maximum rate allowed by the agreement. That’s going to make Verisign a ton of money in exchange for a paltry $20 million that will go to benefit the community at large.

Either create some competition by allowing a bunch (e.g. 5-10) of players to compete with Verisign for the administration business on an on-going basis (e.g. GoDaddy, Namecheap, etc have a choice between Verisign, Player B, Player C, etc so they can’t just jack up prices), or setup a system where prices stay flat year over year (so Verisign has an incentive to increase efficiency).

Don’t give Verisign a blank check to raise .com registration prices by 70% over the next decade.

Thanks,
Steve

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Steven Chanin
steven_chanin at alum.mit.edu
(415) 377-7503



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