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Got this mail from Bodis today and I'm sure that everyone here is ok to join:


Sometime before November 30, 2018, the price of .COM domains may go up when the NTIA's "price-cap" agreement with Verisign, called the "Cooperative Agreement,” expires! You, the owners of .com domain names, stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars collectively if that price increase goes into effect. But you also have the power to do something about it! Demand that ICANN and the NTIA take action NOW to stop a potential price increase on .COM domains and keep their pricing reasonable!

With just a few clicks, make your voice heard and sign a petition (https://www.change.org/p/david-redl-stop-verisign-from-raising-com-pricing) started by the Internet Commerce Association (http://internetcommerce.org/) directed at David Redl of NTIA and GΓΆran Marby of ICANN.

This is what we need you to do:

1. Visit StopThePriceIncreaseOf.com;
2. Sign the Petition: change.org
3. Share the Petition on Social Media

Verisign has vast funds to help them lobby the Congress for the price increase. We have you, the domain name owner, to help us stop it! Please help us and share the petition and website on your social media, blogs and online publications.

Links:
https://www.change.org/p/david-redl-stop-verisign-from-raising-com-pricing
http://stopthepriceincreaseof.com
http://internetcommerce.org


Sincerely,
The Bodis Team
 
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...and the more likely the domainer will drop the domain. Thats the ideal.
What do you think of the $2 .org price increase in the last 2 years? Do, you like it as much as the idea of .com increase?
 
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What do you think of the $2 .org price increase in the last 2 years? Do, you like it as much as the idea of .com increase?

I don't know how much .org's use to cost but I pay $12 on average and I don't have a problem with it.
 
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I have signed the petition.

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I actually hope they do increase it. Too many domainers and too many domain names are taken and its a black death to the world wide web. Its like having a huge luxury parking lot filled with cars nobody owns.
Yeah. It could seem greedy to raise the price, but aren't some people going to benefit, because then just about every mediocre "brandable" wouldn't be taken?
Someone goes to reg something unusual like gelexa.com and maybe it has a $2500 BIN. It's unlikely there will be another buyer for that name anytime soon, but if they want the exact .com, they have to pay $$$$ or wait for it to drop.
It's not a big deal really. They can reg brand+someword or register it in another extension, but cutting out the domainer in that situation isn't a big deal either. The domainer probably wasted their money on a bunch of made-up brand names that have a tiny chance of selling. So raising the price of .com would also help the domainer not waste money?

edit: well, maybe it actually is kind of a big deal from a domainer's point of view. isn't the whole point of domaining to give people good domains..for fair prices.. so if they have to go get a crappier domain because you insist on sitting on every "brandable", then you're defeating the purpose.

And you can go to hugedomains.com to see the junk that would probably drop (you don't have to look hard).

https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=LittlejohnFuneralHome&e=com
( http://www.littlejohnfuneralhomellc.com/ )

https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=PastorCedricMiller&e=com

https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=Gelexia&e=com
heh

https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=HeleXa&e=com

They must own a lot of decent domains too or they wouldn't be in business..and some of the crap must sell occasionally. But there are a bunch that are probably squatting.. or obviously worthless.. or will probably only have one or two interested buyers in the next decade.
and you could criticize what I own too, I don't care.
 
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