<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">I am a registrant of a .com domain name.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style=""> </span></span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry – it has no business dictating the price.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. This is clearly not in the public interest and is an overreach. </span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Laura Hancock</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Ypsilanti, Michigan United States</span></font><br></div>