ICANN, Verisign Agree on .com RA Amendment; Comments Due Feb. 14
ICANN and VeriSign agreed on a proposed amendment to the .com registry agreement, with comments due Feb. 14. Verisign is the registry operator of the .com top-level domain. Because of a growing domain name market, the Commerce Department concluded in…
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an amended cooperative agreement that ICANN and Verisign would serve the public by allowing “an increase to the price for .COM registry services, up to a maximum of 7 percent in each of the final four years of each six-year period,” ICANN wrote Friday. The first six-year period began in October 2018. ICANN and Verisign also announced a proposed framework for collaborating on domain name system security, stability and resiliency, signing a binding letter of intent. These agreements fulfill 2016 commitments when the two sides previously amended the .com pact.