also crucial to the health of the unit is a a 20 euros cooperative agreement between ntia verisign. as your web dot com makes up about 80% of domain names and the popular grievant holds the wholesale price of dot com domain names at $7.85 per year. this is still the to expire in november and it's our extend that ntia and verisign are currently in talks to renew and possibly amend this agreement which could potentially raise prices. go daddy service millions of small customers and in our experience of their sensitive to price increase. we believe it's important to preserve icecaps and any renewal of a cooperative agreement. eventually would leave our industry all consumers benefit from this full dot com agreement being put up for competitive bid. the internet has matured and while with no complaints about their science performance of the contract there are several companies that could capably operate the dot com registry cleaners on perhaps lower cost. so thank you again for the opportunity to testify here today. we believe the united states must continue to push back on protections

what kind of interagency communications are already taking place between usda, fcc, and ntia about bridging the igital divide? >> i think it is best eansd by the chairman. i'm not party to them. >> with respect to u.s.d.a. we have been collectively chab rating repeatedly with secretary purdue as well as the administrator of r.u.s. from missouri to figure out ways to make sure we're on the same page with respect to the 600 million they're now distributing and working together to make sure our programs generally cohere, working with n.t.a. on a whole variety of issues to make sure we're on the same page when it comes to broadband deployment. the not sure what commissioner was specifically addressing but it caught my attention. most recently the c.e.o. of nexttech, and may hometown expressed support for the process on the auction based fund, phase two, difficulties carriers and others are experiencing in collecting reliable data urging the fcc to , quote, measure once and -- measure twice and cut once before disbursing over $4 billion of resources. i have expressed a lot of concern about the i

nonetheless we're working with our federal partners at ntia to make sure we progress based on the facts and the record, i would argue look at what the biggest argument has been in the comments, closing the digital divide. incentivizing incentivizing more infrastructure infrastructure investment. every every single dollar that's diverted to maintaining the fading copper networks in the ground now cannot go toward laying fiber to rebuilding 5g infrastructure. toward toward closing the digital divide with next-generation technologies. all all of the hue and cry about the copper retirement network transition rules, et cetera, have to be keep the overall focus in mind. our goals to close the digital divide. make make sure that folks in mississippi, montana and everywhere else have the same infrastructure that people in the big cities. >> the statement by the department of commerce was largely supportive. >> absolutely. >> how are you with the tribal governments. >> to >> to my understanding i've engaged in more face-to-face consultations with tribes than a number of my predecessors combined.