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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am a .com registrant and am associated with the secondary market.
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains.</span>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">No one other than Verisign wants increases in .COM prices.</span>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified.</span>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry</span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">– it has no business dictating the price – and already makes profits at current price levels in excess of the operating needs to maintain a registry.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The public has a vested interest in reasonably priced domain registrations to foster innovation on the internet and allow the individuals to maintain a presence on the web.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Paul Martin Fawell</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cambridge, Massachusetts United States</span>
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