Re: [ga] Opposition mounts to .com price hike

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

I really do not like the methodology employeed in the adoption of modifications to the contract originally proposed. I see several flaws. Procedure left out consumer input. There was no honest RFP from competitors and there was no transparency in negotiations and there was no tit for tat.
   
  However the pricing seems reasonable. Although i would prefer to have a tiered pricing for charities/educational, personal use with no commercial benefit and commercial. Of course this would be hard to enforce, but within those difficulties i believe we could have found a platform whereing consumers would in fact have a voice.
   
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Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Danny and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

It should come as no surprise that such opposition is intensifying again.
This is NOT a new concern or debate on this and other forums.

This agreement essentially allows for Verisign to impose a "Tax" of sorts
disguised in legal language as a "Fee" in which Verisign can justify from
a cost standpoint in future support for ICANN which had been waning
in order to keep .COM essentially forever.

Some might find this a "Good Deal" for many varied reasons others
might find that ICANN has effectively found a round about way to
fund it's operations at least in part without seeking donations as Esther
Dyson from the early days of ICANN frequently complained about.

I believe however as do most of our members that ALL TLD's are
a public resource and as such a "Fee" or "Tax" for registration should
not be charged to the registrant unless those fees are put into the governments
coffers for future determined use.

Danny Younger wrote:

> 23rd November 2005
> By Kevin Murphy
>
> Excerpt:
>
> A proposed deal that would let VeriSign Inc double the
> wholesale price of a .com domain by 2012 is coming
> under increasing amounts of criticism from consumers
> and from the company's own channel.
>
> Under a deal inked in October, VeriSign agreed to
> settle its lawsuits against ICANN, the Internet Corp
> for Assigned Names and Numbers, in exchange for a new
> .com registry contract that allows it to raise prices.
>
> The deal enables VeriSign to raise prices by 7% a year
> starting in January 2007 through to when the contract
> ends in 2012. If VeriSign took advantage of this every
> year, the price of a .com would double from its
> current $6 by the end of the term.
>
> http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=A784F389-5300-4C71-9175-2E5EAE62861B
>
>
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