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

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

>From a purely economic basis, these price fixing hikes are bad economics

both for Verisign and consumers/potential registrants and current
registrants
in .COM.  Such a method is counter to market forces and/or represents
a forced market influence that may not be reflective of demand/supply
law.

Hence I cannot agree with setting such a graduated price hike method
for domain names in .COM as other Registries could follow suit, such
as ccTLD's ect...  This would be bad for a free and open economic
and trade policy as the US is supposed to be promoting throughout
the world.

Hugh Dierker wrote:

>    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.
>
>   e
>
> 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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> Regards,
>
> --
> Jeffrey A. Williams
> Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
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Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obediance of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Registered Email addr with the USPS
Contact Number: 214-244-4827