<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">As a working artist, I use a .com website to promote my work to directors and artists as well as a teaching tool for young artists to learn about the craft of acting. I am not a corporation that can afford to have large changes made to my cost of living. I work three jobs in the arts and make enough to live and save for when I cannot work any longer. Your changes to the contract with </font></span><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">Version, Inc. seem to be motivated by greed and not by necessity or any forethought for other people’s well-beings.</font><div class=""><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 98, 97);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">I understand that you made no public access to these changes but instead made these changes in secret. Since I am paying you through my annual usage fee, I feel that it is your duty as a fellow human being to have been transparent in your business dealings. You have not. As I understand it, your new dealings with Verisign can lead to an increase of 70% of costs to us. That is not affordable for me. </font></div><div class=""><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">The internet is a place for common good and shared information; please do not limit it to only the wealthy. They do not have the corner on the creative ideas that will bring this world into a better place. The wealthy only have money. It’s not power. </font><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 98, 97); color: rgb(102, 98, 97); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" class="">It's just paper.</span></div><div class=""><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">Please rethink what you are doing.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#666261" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">B. Kotula<br class=""></font><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>