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"<span style="font-style: italic;">Under Amendment 35, the DOC noted
that the domain name
marketplace had grown more dynamic and concluded that it was in the
public interest that, among other things, Verisign and ICANN may agree
to amend the .COM Registry Agreement to permit an increase to the price
for .COM registry services, up to a maximum of 7 percent in each of the
final four years of each six-year period (the first six-year period
commenced on October 26, 2018)."</span><br>
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I disagree. It is not in the public interest to increase the price for
.COM registry services.Increasing prices serves the pecuniary interest
of insiders who seek to take control of what is not only a public asset,
but a unique public asset of the 21st century.<br><br>At this time,
civilisation is polarising with wealth conversion controlling public
assets to move money from losers to winners. It is called elite capture.
Look it up. This never ends well, as history shows.<br><br>There is no
good reason to increase the price to register a domain name because it
ends in .COM. Indeed, Moore's Law says that technology makes static
costs cheaper, and this is the case with .COM registries. As the cost of
processing and storing registries declines, the automated functions of
.COM registry should decline.<br><br>Please reject Amendment 35.<br><br>John
Victor<br>Auckland, New Zealand<br>
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