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I don't really understand why people care specifically about .com when they're still one of the cheapest TLDs you can buy. Like if you wanted to pin this on Verisign specifically you're gonna have to explain why every other domain costs about the same or more. Like tech darlings .io=$71, .tv=$32, .me=$25. Even the worst domain ever .info is $23.

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Because .COM has history before Verisign. Because businesses and people are locked in forever to renewing. It's the defacto TLD for the world. Why don't you care that a monopoly contract that extracts profit for shareholders alone with zero public good is in the best interest of the internet as a whole? Why does Verisign of all entities get to manage it?

There are cheaper TLDs, everytime they go up for bid, the costs to run them comes out and it's under a dollar per domain. And you're comparing .COM an original gTLD to country code TLDs, which are owned by countries. Countries that can make their own rules and charge their own prices.

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