<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Hello, ICANN Directors,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">I represent a non-profit organization who provides environmental services to a New Hampshire lake community, including:</span></div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 16px;">lake water quality testing</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">volunteer and paid hosts at the boating ramp who educate boaters on safe practices and check for invasive species</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">volunteers who patrol the shoreline to spot, identify, and take steps to remediate any invasive species </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">programs to promote </span></li></ul><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> - loon nesting and habitat for other endangered species</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> - discontinuance of the use of lead fishing sinkers which kill loons</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> - planting and nurturing of healthy shoreline vegetation</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> - use of lake-friendly household products</span></div><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">shoreline tree and beach management and more</span></li></ul><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Our lake serves as the town water source through wells dug in a sandy esker which runs across most of the center of the lake. Through careful lake management, education of our wealthy visitor population and lake property owners, the Little Sunapee Protective Association, now in the 50th year of lake stewardship, has been able to maintain the lake as a fully recreational water source, including unrestricted swimming and boating, as well as a primary source of drinking water. The status of the lake is oligotrophic (highest quality of water clarity, low phosphorous, and good oxygen content).</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">We, like many, many other non profit organizations, rely upon our <a href="http://www.littlesunapee.org">http://www.littlesunapee.org</a> website to promote lake health programs, to extend our financial support, and to publish communications.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">We respectfully ask the ICANN organization to assist non-profit organizations in their difficult mission of public education by continuing to offer price protection for the .org domain. It would be a great financial hardship to purchase a domain at the current dollar figure for unprotected domains such as .com.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Jean Twombly</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Board Member </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Little Sunapee Protective Association</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">PO Box 1563</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">New London, NH 03257</span></div><br></body></html>