I kind of want the price to increase, to combat domain squatting. That said, I'd much prefer it if the money went to some charity instead of the ICANN.
At this point, I believe that even if the population of 90% of the planet were to legitimately oppose this, ICANN would ignore it anyway.<p>Not that it isn't worth a shot, but I have become highly cynical of the entire organisation.
Isn't it odd that prices are going UP instead of down ,even though they flooded the market with tlds? The issue is obviously their monopoly, and it needs to be broken down. Petitions are petty<p>Actually what would be even better is if browsers started supporting ENS or some similar competing name system
Since domain names are finite, like real estate, why not charge based on demand? In this scenario, in-demand domain names (mostly based on length) would have higher renewal fees than undesirable ones. Perhaps add an order of magnitude in pricing for each character under 7?<p><pre><code> >=7 - $10
6 - $100
5 - $1000
4 - $10,000
<=3 - $100,000</code></pre>
Domains are the virtual realestate on the web and we are all just tennants and not owners. So there need to regulation for this "market" against domain hoarding and price hikes. Sadly the US government doesn't care.
Switching away from ICANN will have a larger effect than a petition.<p>If you don’t support centralized authority over the DNS root, you can vote with your computer for a new DNS root controlled by the commons [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://www.handshake.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.handshake.org</a>