<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I am writing today to voice my strong opposition to Proposed Amendment 3.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">An incredible amount of websites make use of .com domains, not just commercial sites.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Raising prices on such an ubiquitous domain will not hurt large corporations, but individual people. The web is first and foremost a place for people to share. This is what makes the web great. An enthusiastic 12 year-old can have their own domain these days, and share what they love with an accessible domain.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Raising prices adds barriers for each and every one of us that would like to share with others on the internet. With an arbitrary price increase, it is not an Internet for the people that I foresee, but for businesses with large amounts of money to spare. That is not right.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Please, do not adopt this proposal.</b><br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-quoteDetails"><div class="gmail-quoteText"><span class="gmail-authorOrTitle">Best,</span></div><div class="gmail-quoteText"><span class="gmail-authorOrTitle">Christopher Kirk-Nielsen<br></span></div><div class="gmail-quoteText"><span class="gmail-authorOrTitle"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-quoteText"><span class="gmail-authorOrTitle">“The original idea of the web was that it should be a 
collaborative space where you can communicate through <b>sharing 
information</b>.”
  <br>  ―
  <span class="gmail-authorOrTitle">
    Tim Berners-Lee</span></span></div></div></div></div>