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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This is absolutely unjustified. A .com name is inanimate and holds no service requirement other than records keeping. There is nothing here but a desire to increase costs to owners with no value add.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I vote no and expect anyone representing the .com owners to vote no to this idea as well.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am a registrant of a .com domain name. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry – it has no business dictating the price. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bob Miltenberger</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">President and CEO of Nearshorenetworks<br>Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina United States </span></p></div></body></html>