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<div>To whom it may concern,</div>
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<div>The proposed price increase of .COM domain names is TOTALLY unjustified.</div>
<div>It only benefits ICANN (to the tune of $20M) and Verisign, which is already the most profitable company on this planet, would make hundreds of millions in additional profit .</div>
<div>Two companies want to levy a new tax on 146 million registrants and that is unacceptable.</div>
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<div>The cost of registering a .COM domain name should go WAY DOWN not up !</div>
<div>With the cost of technolgy going down and economies of scale, the real cost to Verisign is close to $2 or even less.</div>
<div>At $4 per year, Verisign would still make a very healthy profit.</div>
<div>In fact, a lot of other registry operators would kill to operate the .COM registry at that price, some would go even lower.</div>
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<div>ICANN’s duty is to act in the public interest, not in its own interest , nor in the interest of Verisign.</div>
<div>ICANN’s duty is to promote competition so ICANN must put the .COM contract for bid since currently there is no competition at all with Verisign enjoying a monopoly forever.</div>
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<div>.COM contract should be put for rebid every 5 year.</div>
<div>That would be a healthy way of managing a public resource.</div>
<div>Verisign is a contractor chosen by ICANN to manage the .COM registry, VERISIGN is not the owner of the .COM registry, as such Verisign can’t dictate the price, only ICANN can.</div>
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<div>Special comment to ICANN’s Ombudsman : this a public comment by a netizen in opposition of the Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement</div>
<div>THIS IS NOT A SPAM !</div>
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<div>Jason Black (registrant of a few .COM domain names)</div>
<div>Los Angeles, USA</div>
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