Dot com extension price likely to increase

[Samuel Adebo]

Got this mail from bodis today;

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 Göran 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

 

[themavrick]

Will do. Thnx

 

[Samuel Adebo]

Will do. Thnx

We really need to act quickly..If the increment should take place, it's going to affect alot of things.

 

[xynames]

https://www.thedomains.com/2016/09/02/doj-says-com-price-cap-will-remain-7-85-2024/

DOJ Says .Com Price Cap Will Remain At $7.85 Until 2024

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The Department of Justice in a letter sent on August 31st [2016] to Senator Cruz and his colleagues in response to their August 12th letter inquiring on antitrust and Verisign after the transition and .Com RA extension makes clear that NTIA, in consultation with DOJ, retains full authority to extend the Cooperative Agreement and the .Com price freeze through 2024.

“We note that the current extension proposal contemplated by ICANN and Verisign does not change the price cap contained in the 2012 .com Registry Agreement, which will remain in effect through November 30, 2018. Nor does the current extension proposal alter the price cap in Amendment 32 of the Cooperative Agreement.

Moreover, if NTIA were to approve an extension of the .com Registry Agreement, it would have the right in its sole discretion to extend the term of the Cooperative Agreement with the current price cap in place until 2024 at any time prior to November 30, 2018, the date on which the Cooperative Agreement is currently scheduled to expire.

If this occurs, the $7.85 fee cap would be extended another six years to 2024.”


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So, isn't the OP's post about something that already happened or was in some way already decided two years ago?

 

[DKN]

Signed

 

[vwblubug]

Signed and Shared!

 

[pankaj0008]

I also signed. Thanks.

 

[viniproject09]

Ok, This a nice initiative by the people to keep the .com domain pricing low. New generation should have the right to see the reasonable price when the open their eyes in world run in the race of startups .

 

[Grego85]

BOYCOTT .COM!!!!

 

[Ategy]

So, isn't the OP's post about something that already happened or was in some way already decided two years ago?

Yeah .. I'm quite sure we won't see a change ... but to answer your question .. I think that the understanding and instructions to keep the cap have already been made clear to the NTIA by the US Gov that they are to not change the price .. but maybe the whole hoopla is that it hasn't "officially" been done yet. But in reality the decision has indeed been made behind the scenes and all that's left to do is make it official. (Maybe some people are concerned that there's always a chance of the Gov changing it's mind before that?)

Anyhow .. that's my guess .. lol