<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear ICANN Organization,<br class=""><br class="">The domain registrar company Namecheap informed me about your propose to change the contract you have with Verisign, Inc. who operate the .COM top-level-domain (TLD). <br class=""><br class="">Since this action can cause relevant increase of the .com domains’ future price without having any additional benefit for the .com domain owners I’m fully against it.<br class=""><br class="">Additionally there is an ethical issue with this changes negotiated in secret since ICANN is a non-profit private organization which has taken over from the U.S. government various administrative duties associated with running the Internet in 1998 and expanded to a global organization with <font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">"multistakeholder model”. </span></font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Please reconsider your intention to change this contract!</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Thanks!</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Best regards,</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Evi Farkas</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">one of the .com domain owners.</font></div><br class="">
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