<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><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="">To Whom it May Concern,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am a registrant of a number of .com domain names, all of which are critical to my business. Some of those domains are the titles of my 6 books published by McGraw-Hill. Other domain names I own relate to my speaking/training business and my online class. <br class=""><br class="">I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains.<br class=""><br class="">No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices.<br class=""><br class="">Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry – it has no business dictating the price.<br class=""><br class="">ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest.<br class=""><br class="">Dr. Rick Brinkman<br class="">Portland, Oregon United States
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font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">Author & Speaker</span><div class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""><font color="#000080" class=""><b class="">Conscious Communication®</b></font></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""><font color="#000080" class=""><b class="">Office: 503-635-4145</b></font></span></font></div></span></b></font></span></font><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">Dr. Brinkman is the co-author of the international best selling McGraw Hill book, </span><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><i class="">“</i></span></font><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><i class="">Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring out the Best in People at their Worst."</i></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">It is in it's third edition, with 2,000,000 copies sold and has been translated into 25 languages. </span><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">He is also the co-author of </span><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">“Love Thy Customer”</span><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">, and</span><i class=""> <span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;" class="">Life by Design, Bringing Out the Best in Yourself"</span></i><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">His latest book published by McGraw-Hill in May 2017 is: <i class="">“Dealing with Meetings You Can’t Stand, Meet Less and Do More.”</i></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Dr. Rick Brinkman is known for "Educating through Entertainment". When style meets substance people learn and take action. He has performed keynotes to groups as large as 8000 and also does small group in depth training.</span></div><div class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">For communication, attitude and life tips check out my Conscious Communication blog at: <a href="http://rickbrinkman.com/blog" class="">http://rickbrinkman.com/blog</a></span><br class="">Visit <font color="#000080" class=""><b class=""><a href="http://www.drrickbrinkman.com" class="">www.drrickbrinkman.com</a></b> </font>for free resources and more information about his audios, CDs and other products. Dr. Brinkman offers expert training and entertaining keynotes to corporations and associations internationally. </span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></span></span></div></div></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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