Hike comment period ends February 14 — .Com price
Friday deadline to weigh in on fresh .com contract terms.
People opposed to ICANN’s plan to allow Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) to raise prices on .com domains have until Friday, February 14, to submit a comment to ICANN.
The proposed Amendment #3 to ICANN’s contract with Verisign to run .com will allow Verisign to increase prices 7% per year in the last four years of each six-year renewal period. The current wholesale price of a .com domain is $7.85. Verisign is paying ICANN $20 million over five years as part of the deal.
Comments can be made by sending an email to comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20 @ icann.org.
Internet Commerce Association, an advocacy group representing domain name owners, has created a form to make it easier to submit comments. The form allows you to select reasons you are opposed/in favor of the contract amendment, but comments might be given more weight if people add personalized feedback on the plan.
A number of domain name registrars, counting Namecheap, Dynadot and NameBright, have emailed their clients asking them to submit comments.
