[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Comments Regarding Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
Sebastian Storholm
sebastian at storholm.fi
Tue Feb 11 21:51:46 UTC 2020
To Whom It May Concern,
Reading the proposed amendment to the .COM Registry Agreement, I must first
state my disappointment with how this whole process has been handled by
ICANN. I very much understand Verisign's fondness for keeping this whole
proposed amendment as secret as possible for as long as possible, but ICANN
should strive to increase transparency, not try to minimize it. It leaves
the community with the (probably right) impression that matters are not
really handled as a community, but rather by a select few behind closed
doors. I hope this is a singular oversight on ICANN's part, and not an
indicator of procedure going forward.
Regarding the content of the proposed amendment, I can not see how, if I
read it correctly, an up to 70% increase in domain name costs over the
coming 10 years is in any way motivated. Costs of maintaining the necessary
infrastructure has dropped over the last decade, and will continue to drop
as technology, convergence and automation improves. This should mandate
that prices should drop going forward, not increase. A natural correction
for inflation is maybe necessary, but that would be in single percentage
points over the same time period regardless of what model for estimating
inflation is used.
Best regards,
Sebastian Storholm
ICT Architect
sebastian at storholm.fi
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