<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b style="font-size: 11px;" class="">If the information I have received is accurate, ICANN and Verisign have agreed to <span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">significant changes to the contract</span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> that governs your relationship, changes which will have dramatic consequences for internet users by allowing </span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Verisign to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains every year for 8 out of the next 10 years</span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></b></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class="">ICANN made these changes in secret, without consulting or incorporating feedback from the ICANN community or Internet users. Although ICANN has a history of making similar deals behind closed doors, and also of ignoring unified opposition against such action, I nevertheless hereby register my objection to your deal.</b></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Verisign agreeing to pay ICANN an additional $20 million dollars over five years to support</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> ICANN's domain name system initiatives (with no clarity about how ICANN will spend the money or who will ensure that the funds are properly spent on domain infrastructure) is no justification for the important effect you are forcing on internet users.</span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span></b></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></b></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Sincerely,</span></b></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></b></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Robert Burns</span></b></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>