Public Comment: Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement
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> To register a .com domain on behalf of a customer, a company like Namecheap or Dynadot must pay Verisign a $7.85 fee. Registrars typically add a few dollars on top of this fee, but fierce competition among registrars limits their ability to raise prices. But Verisign itself doesn't have competitors; if you want to register a .com address, you have to do business with Verisign.
> To prevent Verisign from abusing this monopoly, ICANN caps the fees Verisign can charge.
> The new contract allows Verisign to raise the current $7.85 price by 7 percent per year over the next four years