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

[Bill Patterson]

I am a domainer, investing in domain names as a business.

I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains.  No one other
than Verisign want increases in .COM prices, and increases benefit only
Verisign.

Verisign is already a highly-profitable company.  There is no reasonable
explanation to enrich them further at the expense of domain registrars and
registrants.

The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified.  If the .COM
registry management contract were put up for competitive bidding, a much
lower price could be attained, which would truly be in the public
interest.  Instead, we have an anti-competitive system set up to benefit
only Verisign and ICANN.

Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry – it has no business
dictating the price.  ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in
the public interest.

Bill Patterson
Richardson, Texas
United States
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