registries Stop the Price Increase of .com

[pablohc86]

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 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

 

[address]

domain registration should be free like as username on twitter Instagram etc..

 

[Kate]

Because you think 'free' services are free ?

 

[Daniel Owens]

Because you think 'free' services are free ?

Nothing for nothing I think, in a world where domains were free (I think they were in the 80's when internet barely existed - symbolics was first domain). I suspect we would be required to have ads on our parked domains and ads on the website where 100% went to registry. Either, that or they would harvest and sell our info more then they already do now.
I am waiting though to see on the topic the price increase however, so far it seems a mystery for most peeps.

 

[address]

Because you think 'free' services are free ?

Yep users are the product

 

[eternaldomains]

@Kamila_ICA and @matt_bodis

Since you're both here, may I request that you make an equally important petition to ICANN not to force domainers to wait 60 days before they can sell newly registered domains? This new-reg lock with no opt out option seems to be nothing more than a huge discrimination policy against (especially poorer/newbie) domainers, using security as an excuse when the lock triggered after transferring to a different registrar is already more than enough to stop whatever hack/theft from going further than 1 registrar.

Right now, new domainers trying to sell their newly registered domains can never sell anywhere at all unless it's registered at GoDaddy (apparently, due to them being well known and therefore buyers apparently don't mind making a new account there, so is ICANN trying to indirectly promote GoDaddy???)

Marketplaces like Branddo now refuse to accept new domains, and even if new domains are accepted in BB and BP and etc, can they get sold if there's a buyer within the 60-day period? Afternic Premium and Sedo MLS cannot be activated. Outbound selling is also affected. And as for brokers, I don't know how they deal with this. It's extremely ridiculous to be forced to wait for 2 whole months before new domainers are able to sell anything or be forced to buy only premium domains when they are just starting out.

I hope you will consider making and sharing this petition.

 

[nydomain]

Signed. Thx for you work, and let's keep this going

 

[jdk]

@Kamila_ICA and @matt_bodis

Since you're both here, may I request that you make an equally important petition to ICANN not to force domainers to wait 60 days before they can sell newly registered domains? This new-reg lock with no opt out option seems to be nothing more than a huge discrimination policy against (especially poorer/newbie) domainers, using security as an excuse when the lock triggered after transferring to a different registrar is already more than enough to stop whatever hack/theft from going further than 1 registrar.

Right now, new domainers trying to sell their newly registered domains can never sell anywhere at all unless it's registered at GoDaddy (apparently, due to them being well known and therefore buyers apparently don't mind making a new account there, so is ICANN trying to indirectly promote GoDaddy???)

Marketplaces like Branddo now refuse to accept new domains, and even if new domains are accepted in BB and BP and etc, can they get sold if there's a buyer within the 60-day period? Afternic Premium and Sedo MLS cannot be activated. Outbound selling is also affected. And as for brokers, I don't know how they deal with this. It's extremely ridiculous to be forced to wait for 2 whole months before new domainers are able to sell anything or be forced to buy only premium domains when they are just starting out.

I hope you will consider making and sharing this petition.

Buy a domain, wait the 60 days, and transfer to GD if you do not want to register it there. If a buyer wants a domain, registering for a free account at another registrar won't turn them away. They can then transfer to GD themselves after the 60 days is up.

 

[larryscott2559]

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.

 

[Daniel Owens]

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 lots filled with cars nobody owns.

What we need is fair .com pricing (should lower $1 from $8.xx to $7) which helps drive up the market and increase domain sales prices. however, a price increase is more likely then decrease. But, point is the higher the prices the less likely people will buy them.

 

[larryscott2559]

What we need is fair .com pricing (should lower $1 from $8.xx to $7) which helps drive up the market and increase domain sales prices. however, a price increase is more likely then decrease. But, point is the higher the prices the less likely people will buy them.

...and the more likely the domainer will drop the domain. Thats the idea.

 

[Daniel Owens]

...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?

 

[larryscott2559]

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.

 

[dntaps]

I have signed the petition.

up

 

[wormfood]

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.