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<pre>Dear Sir/Madam:</pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">I am writing to oppose Proposed Amendment 3. Despite<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">there clearly being potential financial gains to be had by raising the<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">registration fee on .com domains, the global DNS registration system should<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">be run primarily as a public concern. The only entities that stand to<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">benefit from the proposed arrangement are verisign itself, at the expense<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">of the public. While price hikes such as this likely won't mean much to the<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">larger business concerns that buy in bulk, it will impact the millions of<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">small, independent businesses and developers that rely on the system as is<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">to make their livelihood. At worst, this could prove yet another point of<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">pressure that convinces a small business to make their online<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">presence exclusively in the Facebook walled garden and eschew the web<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">itself. The web, and global DNS, were envisioned to be run for the public<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">good, and they SHOULD be run for the public good. Deals such as this are an<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">abdication of that mandate; short sighted profit chasing at the expense of<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">all else. Please do not adopt this proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Larry Dumka</p>
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