[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Price increases

[Ioannis Zounalis]

Dear Sirs,

I think the price increases you allow of exotic proportions and up to 70% make the internet and the TLD registration undemocratic and segregational, especially to new entrepreneurs and small businesses, which make up the vast majority of domain registers/clients and  internet users at the same time. 

Do not allow this abuse. Resist obscurity behind which you and only 1 the private company decide for the TLD fate of the world, a whopping 40% of the market share but way more in the mindshare of users, since any TLD is primarily associated with .com in users’ minds. Because the Internet and the TLDs therefore are a GLOBAL issue and not just a private issue between 2 companies. 

Your decisions raise serious concerns throughout the internet community globally and lead to outrageous prices. Yes, even meds can raise their pricess but did you see the effects in recent examples? You can not allow exaggeration and exuberance, as the overseeing authority on domain registrations, let alone to cut deals directly with 1 private company without listening to anyone else. 

I find the information that Namecheap provided on this issue useful. I would be not only surprised but infuriated in i saw .com’s at 30 or 40 per piece per year. Let alone the already exuberant prices of some .coms in the thousands of dollars. Domains are just a registration and nothing else, not the business itself or the process to be found. 

And who is to say that if we and you allow such exaggerations, the other domains will not follow suit?

Sincerely,

Yannis Zounalis
Publisher.