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

[Noel Springer]

I am the owner of several dot com domains and I am opposed to the 
proposal to allow Verisign to increase wholesale prices of dot com domains.

It has been estimated that the true cost for Verisign of running the dot 
com registry is somewhere between $1 to $3.50 per domain per year. It 
would seem the current wholesale price of $7.85 is more than adequate to 
run the registry and generate a fair profit.

If the proposed increases are applied in full then a price increase to 
$10.26 in a mere 6 years would be 30%. Additionally according to figures 
for the US inflation rate at https://inflationdata.com/ the proposed 7% 
incremental increases are more than double the current annual inflation 
rate (for 2019).

Verisign does not own the dot com domain space. It's role is to provide 
technical services. It is already well compensated for the services it 
provides and thus higher fees for Verisign are not justified.


Noel Springer