Re: [registrars] .COM Settlement Documents

["Marcus Faure" <faure@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I could not agree more. Is there a way that we can stress the term
"competition", ICANN's major goal, more?? What we currently see
has NOTHING to do with competition.

Yours,
Marcus

>   
> 
> Quoting from the document published about public comments -
> 
> "Regarding registrants, there was some expression that there might be some
> negative effects due to the potential price increases, but, the majority
> across constituencies expressed that the increase in cost was negligible
> when compared to the value of a domain name registration."
> 
> I dont remember there being "some" expression about negative effects. to my
> mind most of the comments on the forum are negative. I also don't remember
> majority of the comments reflecting that the increase in cost was negligible
> when compared to a domain name registration. Infact most comments that I
> opened up on the public forum were concerned about the price. None of the
> ones I saw stated that the price increase was negligible compared with the
> value of a domain name.
> 
> While I havent reviewed this document in detail, I am concerned about ICANN
> staff sending an incorrect message to the Board and to the community in
> general, with its initial set of FAQs they posted as well as this set of
> documents. Both these documents seem to have been carefully word-smithed to
> try and make as if there exists contention as well as support almost
> equally. This is entirely untrue. We have 20,000+ resellers and i can assure
> you not one of them nor their 400,000+ customers are happy about this and
> support this in any fashion. many of them have voiced this on the comment
> forums alongwith companies worldwide.
> 
> Bhavin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <BLOCKED::mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ] On Behalf Of Michael
> > D. Palage
> > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 1:35 PM
> > To: registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [registrars] .COM Settlement Documents
> >
> > Dear Registrars:
> >
> > ICANN staff has uploaded the following documents to the ICANN
> > website in connection with the .COM settlement agreement.
> >
> > Summary of Comments Regarding the Proposed .COM Agreement,
> > see
> > http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/comments-summary-1
> <BLOCKED::http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/comments-summary-1> 
> > 1dec05.pdf
> >
> > Analysis of Public Comment Regarding the Proposed .COM
> > Agreement, see
> > http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/comments-analysis-
> <BLOCKED::http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/comments-analysis-> 
> > 11dec05.pd
> > f
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Michael D. Palage
> > 
>