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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p>To Whom it may concern:<o:p></o:p></p><p>I am a registrant of a .com domain name and I help many of my clients maintain their business domains. The cost of management is not justified in the eyes of the customer when the infrastructure is already in place and only management of the systems is required. This only appears to be a profit move for the interested parties and not a benefit to the internet industry as a whole. <o:p></o:p></p><p>I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. When domain managers and resellers barely make a dollar or two on domain renewals, it is inappropriate that the supplier is entitled to shorten that margin without affecting themselves at the same time. <o:p></o:p></p><p>No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices. <o:p></o:p></p><p>The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. Then when purchased through a domain registrar, it is more than that value and with so much competition out there, it is hard to manage a margin on domain renewals like we could in the past. When things just started out, it was pretty much an industry standard that retail pricing could be between $50-$100 for domain registrations AND renewals. Then for a time period it has had to drop to $30-$50 and now you are lucky if you find someone charging more than $20 for a domain renewal and most offer it at just about cost. For some of us, this is meant to help with cash flow for a couple dollars in margin, with the increase, which comes completely unjustified towards operating costs, when the governing body was meant to be non-profit. <o:p></o:p></p><p>Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry – it has no business dictating the price. By no means should there be what appears to be a monopoly on .com registration direction on pricing. <o:p></o:p></p><p>ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. Without question. The integrity of the governing body should be unimpeachable. <o:p></o:p></p><p>Adam Kulchyski <br>Oakville, Ontario Canada <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>