Contract Extension MUST Address .Com Pricing

["TJ Scott Daniels" <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is not the extension that needs to be discussed here, but the pricing
over the .com monopoly.  Right now pricing for .com domain names is
governed by the Cooperative Agreement with the NTIA.  If this contract
extension is to be considered as proposed, it needs to be inherently
tied to Verisign’s maintenance of the Cooperative Agreement with the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

Should Verisign fail to maintain and/or renew the Cooperative Agreement,
this extension should be made null and void immediately on the date that
the Cooperative Agreement is no longer in force.  The .com contract will
then need to be put out for a public bid to ensure that Verisign is not
charging monopolistic prices.  This is to ensure that Verisign is not
given full reign to act as an independent monopoly and abuse its
monopolistic powers without any pricing oversight.

The contract extension at hand is not inherently an issue, except that
it does not address pricing of .com domain names in any way
what-so-ever.  Pricing of .com domain names NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED if
this contract extension is to be considered.  Given that the pricing is
governed in a separate agreement, the Cooperative Agreement, this early
contract extension MUST stipulate that the Cooperative Agreement need to
be renewed to the satisfaction of the NTIA for this contract extension
to be binding.

The proposed extension MUST NOT BE CONSIDERED If the contract extension
does not either A.) address pricing of .com domain names directly or B.)
require a valid Cooperative Agreement with the NTIA at all times during
the period of this new contract.