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Versigns will make 7% rise every year in domain prices, which will double the price in 10 years

2005-11-24T19:03:00.000+05:30

I had already sent the protest email , I would request all other people as well to take this matter strongly with ICANN.

Also if you have different domains , send different email from all your domains.

Hi everyone,

I am writing this letter to all of you personally because it is time for all of you to stand up for a cause. Some of you might be aware that ICANN and Verisign recently announced a proposed settlement of their pending litigation (Verisign had sued ICANN a few years ago and that lawsuit is pending). We believe this settlement is unfair, unjust, inappropriate and would be blasphemous to the Internet community and to your Business.

Some Highlights of the settlement

The settlement agreement allows Verisign to increase the price of .com domain names to every Registrar by 7% every year. Currently Verisign charges all Registrars $6 for every domain name. The new settlement agreement however allows them to increase prices to all of us without any cost justification. They can simply increase the price by 7% EACH year.

This means they could double the price in 10 years. Naturally any increase in price would mean all Registrars would have to increase their prices to you. This would reduce your sales and reduce your potential to sell other Products.

In this settlement proposal ICANN is giving Verisign the chance to make more than 2 Billion Dollars extra over the next 10 years. This may by far be the most expensive settlement proposal the world has witnessed.

This 2 Billion Dollars is coming out of your / your customers pockets.

The new settlement agreement also doubles the ICANN fees charged to Registrars. Currently Registrars pay 25 cents per domain name to ICANN. The new agreement will make that 50 cents. This again means all Registrars will further increase what they charge all of you for dotCom Domain Names.

The new settlement agreement has a perpetual presumptive renewal clause. This means that Verisign will permanently hold on to the dotCom Registry. There will never be any competitive bid for it, except in a very remote circumstance. Verisign now gets the right to a perpetual monopoly. This means that they are free to do whatever they want with dotCom, without fear of competition. Prices therefore will never reduce.

The entire settlement documents are posted online at http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements...agreements.htm

The part with regards to pricing is in Section 7.3 of http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements...nt-22sep05.pdf

What can you do?

This settlement agreement will be signed very soon unless the ICANN Board is convinced otherwise. You all represent the voice of the various Domain Name Consumers worldwide. All of you should send your comments about this settlement and how it will affect your business.

Send your comments to settlement-comments@icann.org

Keep the following points in mind before sending your comments:

Put in your company name, and specify how long you have been in business, and how you represent the voices of hundreds and thousands of Customers in your specific region.

You may specify how any increase in the dotCom domain name prices will affect your business.

Readup existing comments by other people at http://forum.icann.org/lists/settlement-comments/. Your comments can be similar to the ones already posted. More number of comments about the same issue from different people across different countries would clearly show that everyone is concerned about the same issue.

Feel free also to forward this email to your Customers and Resellers and urge them to individually post comments as to how this would impact their respective Business.

Why ICANN should not sign this Settlement?
ICANN itself has stated publicly that it is more likely to win the lawsuit than lose it. There is no reason for it to sell out the Internet to settle this litigation when there is a greater chance of it winning the lawsuit anyways.

The outcome does not provide benefits to the Internet community that both ICANN and Verisign were intended to serve.

The ICANN staff are proposing to provide Verisign the ability to increase their prices by 7% annually. Everywhere around the world prices for domain names and web services are reducing. There is no reason for ICANN to grant an increase in the prices.

ICANN is supposed to act as an administrator of the Internet on behalf of the Internet community. This proposed settlement however benefits ICANN and Verisign at the cost of the community.

It is important at a time like this for you to stand up and make yourself heard. The Internet should not belong to any one organization. Any changes affect millions of businesses worldwide. It would be unfair if any such changes are made without consensus from the community as a whole.

Regards,
Bhavin Turakhia
Founder, Chairman & CEO

WD Team

Already there are news of lot of protest against the proposed agreement between ICANN and Verisign. You may read the selected comments on: http://forum.icann.org/lists/settlement-comments/ OR send your own comment to ICANN using thieir e-mail: settlement-comments@icann.org

Choosing Web Host

2005-11-24T10:27:00.000+05:30

Choosing Web host is critial factor in establishing a website, a wrong host can ruin the best website designed or best marketed website. so it is very important to have good host. we recommend to go for big host companies even at a premium.

Checklist while choosing web host

1. Find the best web hosts list which you can get at www.findmywebhost.org

2. Go to hosts site check what they offer at what price.

3. Compare host on your needs not simply on features

4. Diskspace/Bandwidth/Uptime/Linux or Windows/Database/Support & few more things

5. Also check hosting forums you can , to find what are peoples comment

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Happy TK

2005-11-24T00:38:00.000+05:30

Happy Thanks Giving :)

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2005-08-24T10:20:00.000+05:30

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How to manage your email address on your website

2005-02-22T21:10:00.000+05:30

1.A email address that is to be placed on the web is to be
different than one that is to be used for daily business.

2. One can put an image for "@" or an entire email address in an image

3. User mailto with proper subject , so that one can easily filter out other emails
Example : " mailto:info@SampleEmail.com?Subject=Purpose-Filter_NameofPage "

4. Web Forms - is yet another way / but not giving email address is as risky as
not giving telephone number on business card.

5. restricting is difficult, but we can make it difficult for spammers

6. keep improving on technique

Selecting Domain Name - Critical step towards the lauch of the website

2005-01-20T20:36:00.000+05:30

Domain Name is the critical / first step towards the lauch of sucess of the "Website"

What to look for selection while selecting domain

a) Try to keep domain name small & sweet (phonetic)

b) Try domain name with your keywords / Brands if your company name is not available

c) Try other options available other than .com (Local options like for US (.us) for India (.in)

d) Be Expiremental & Ceative

e) Take care of domain expiry.

Also if you need further personalized help on selection of domain name you can contact websites-designing.com

Happy Kite Flying

2005-01-13T19:55:00.000+05:30

Happy Kite Flying

In Ahmedabad Kite Flying Flestival is day to be on terrace & enjoy whole day. Entire Team at Websites-Designing will be enjoying the festival. This time a weekend is also attached so we have a long holidays ahead

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New Links at Bottom of Website Introduced

2005-01-12T19:50:00.000+05:30

We have introduced new links on Bottom of the website, these links provide valuable links to Websites-Designing.com Plus Value Addition to Website Design Visitors. Major Links are of Web Site Directories from world over

Happy New Year

2005-01-01T19:49:00.000+05:30

We wish every body a very happy new year !

Tsunami - Worst Hit World - Help The way you could

2004-12-28T12:55:00.000+05:30

I was out of the town but as I heard the news of tsunami & was shocked.

The tsunami has been caused by a terrible undersea earthquake, the largest in 40 years. It struck off the Indonesian Island of Sumatra & South Asia and measuring at magnitude 9.0.

Destruction of human life & wealth has been on very large magnitude, death toll has been roughly estimated to be near 150,000.

Help Help - the Tsunami Victims the way you can , that is all i can say.

May God Bless us !

Merry Christmas

2004-12-25T21:49:00.000+05:30

Merry Christmas

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2004-12-01T02:50:00.000+05:30

The new design has been recieving nice response, we are trying to more tune up the site

Websites-Designing

2004-11-22T00:39:00.000+05:30

We have lauched New Design for Websites-Designing.com ! Hope we will have more frequent updates. I plan to lauch the detailed Marketing Activity for the domain as well.

2004-05-19T13:59:00.000+05:30

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