[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Urging ICANN to reconsider decisions that would increase .COM website prices.

Veera Praneeth veerapraneethm at gmail.com
Wed Feb 12 07:09:43 UTC 2020


Hi ICANN,



>From NameCheap.com, we got to know that Verisign agreed to pay ICANN an
additional $20 million dollars over five years to support ICANN's domain
name system initiatives, without any clarity about how ICANN will spend the
money, or who will ensure that the funds are properly spent on domain
infrastructure.

According to this new agreement, Verisign will be allowed to increase the
wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains every year for 8 out of the
next 10 years, and this might not even stop there. Handing over such kind
of power to a single company without any regulation would only mean havoc.
Without the information on the company's intent on using that power gives a
chance,  that it can capitalised to the point where the le' website/
business owner would be charged more that the existing prices for the greed
of the company.

A justified price with improved service or security features are always
welcome. However, using a fake or non-existing technology just to mint
money would be a blunder. Hope, ICANN would reconsider the agreement with
Verisign or the proposal in the view of their consumer's interests.

In the worst case scenario, if the .COM website prices are hiked the
consumers would move to a better service that would offer .COM sites at a
lower price or to stick to other endings, .org, .net, etc.... This would
result in loss of customers from your domain.


Yours sincerely,

Veera Praneeth.
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