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Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .COM
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I oppose the proposed renewal of the .com Registry Agreement with Verisign due to excessive price increases, lack of competitive bidding, potential limitations on market competition, and insufficient technical performance requirements.
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I strongly support and reiterate the comments already made by the Internet Commerce Association.
ICANN, please stop approving these contracts that serve only to enrich Verisign shareholders like Berkshire, Vanguard, and Blackrock.
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Tucows appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .com. As the largest wholesale registrar and a leading provider of domain services, this is of the utmost importance to our business. Tucows is supportive of most of the proposed...
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The Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) welcomes the opportunity to provide a comment on the proposed renewal of the Registry Agreement for .COM. The RrSG is overall supportive of the changes, with significant concerns relating to price increases and lack of oversight.
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Under Verisign's control, registration costs for dot com domains have increased significantly faster than other consumer goods. The proposed Registry Agreement renewal confers continued power upon Verisign to raise prices at the expense of consumers and small businesses.
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Digimedia concurs with and supports the comment submitted by the Internet Commerce Association.
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A critical analysis of ICANN's proposed renewal of Verisign's .Com registry contract highlights serious governance concerns. The deal would allow Verisign to raise domain prices by 31% over six years despite their already high profit margins, while avoiding competitive bidding or public oversight. The negotiations occurred largely in private, raising questions about ICANN's commitment to its mission of fostering competition and serving the pub...
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Dear ICANN,
Thank you for the opportunity to provide input on the proposed renewal of the .COM Registry Agreement (RA). I appreciate the careful attention given to enhancing security, stability, and accessibility within the .COM domain space. However, I have reservations regarding the proposed price increase, which I believe warrants further consideration.
Opposition to Price Increase
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Verisign already enjoys profit margins of 60 to 70% and are looking to increase prices on .com and .net registrants even more. Verisign has exclusive control over the .com and .net registries. We need a competitive bidding process.
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The renewal of this registry agreement has a substantial impact on the global community of internet users and should be considered very carefully. Verisign's current pricing is already set without any competition and without regard for how much operating the registry actually costs. The prices are merely made up and not a free market. Ideally, the COM registry operation is put out to open bid so that the market can determine what pricing shoul...
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ICANN’s proposed renewal of the .Com contract with Verisign enables steep fee increases without a transparent, competitive process, favoring corporate profit over the public's interest. Allowing Verisign's monopoly on .Com domains to continue unchecked imposes unnecessary costs on millions of registrants. ICANN should either open the contract for competitive bidding or conduct an independent review to ensure fair pricing that aligns with its c...
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We appreciate the opportunity to comment on the proposed renewal of the .COM Registry Agreement. At NameFocus, we are a domain investment company, and the proposed fee increases in .COM registration and renewal fees would significantly impact our business. We respectfully urge ICANN to reconsider allowing these fee increases due to the following concerns:
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TurnCommerce Primary Submission
ICANN can offer no legitimate justification to defend its decision to perpetually suppress competition for the management of the .Com registry database, let alone completely disavow pricing authority. ICANN has failed to act consistent with its legal mandate, abusing the public trust by handing a perpetual monopoly to Verisign and consistently agreeing to hand it billions m...
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ICANN has a long history of ignoring public input, especially input that originates from domain name registrants. For those who’ve read our past comment submissions over the past two decades to ICANN, this current submission will appear like “deja vu all over again”, as it reiterates points that ICANN has ignored in the past. While ICANN staff will likely continue to ignore our input, we will continue to place such input on the public record t...
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The BC generally supports the Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .COM, provided that ICANN and Verisign address questions and suggestions described in our attached comment.
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This letter expresses deep disappointment in ICANN's lack of transparency and accountability in its no-bid contract negotiations terms and process with Verisign for .COM renewals. ICANN continues by ignoring any and all public input as well as the Facts and prioritizing Verisign’s financial interests over the millions of end users it’s meant to protect. ICANN’s continued actions have eroded trust, as shown by its repeated failure to open con...
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ICANN should investigate the growing trends which threaten DNS security and integrity. DNS security challenges are well-documented, however the growing problem of arbitrage and abuse in the unregulated secondary market for domain names is less recognized but no less serious. Indeed, the very system designed to keep .com prices low and accessible is increasingly and systematically manipulated by some self-interested registrars which buy an orig...
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The Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .COM is of substantial importance due to the sheer volume of .COM domain name registrations involved as well as the massive cumulative cost of registrations and corresponding revenue for ICANN's .COM registry operator.
The ICA's Public Comment Comprises the following topics. Please refer to the attached PDF to access the ICA's Public Comment.
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As an organization deeply committed to combating child sexual abuse and exploitation online, we submit this comment to express our profound distrust and frustration with Verisign’s continued management of the .com and .net registries. Verisign’s ongoing negligence and failure to uphold its significant responsibility in curbing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on domains under its stewardship is not only unacceptable but dangerous. We firmly ...
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Key issues have been identified regarding the renewal between ICANN and Verisign, mainly focusing on Verisign's monopolistic position and the timing of ICANN's public comment process.
Significance of .COM: As the world's most widely used domain extension, .COM's management critically affects global internet access and affordability. This necessitates a more careful approach than with oth...