<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> Dear ICANN: </span><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I wholeheartedly oppose the idea of extending the contract to operate .org but </span><strong style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">letting PIR set whatever prices it wants</strong><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">. </span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">A significant obstruction to public access and use of the web, your proposed move would dramatically obstruct the ability of non-profit organizations, entrepreneurs and others to do their business. That includes me: I am an entrepreneurial journalist and fear that, under the scenario you propose, I would be hard-pressed to market my work and make a living.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Thank you,</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Julie Hantman</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="http://www.climatesummer.org" class="">www.climatesummer.org</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(109, 110, 112); color: rgb(109, 110, 112); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span></div></body></html>