<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="margin:0px;padding:0.8em 0px 0.25em;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Noto Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(26,26,27)">Hello,</p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="margin:0px;padding:0.8em 0px 0.25em;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Noto Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(26,26,27)">I would like to voice my opposition to Proposed Amendment 3.</p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="margin:0px;padding:0.8em 0px 0.25em;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Noto Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(26,26,27)">I believe that the global DNS registration system should be run primarily as a public concern.</p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="margin:0px;padding:0.8em 0px 0.25em;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Noto Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(26,26,27)">The only entities that stand to benefit from the proposed arrangement are verisign itself, at the expense of the public. These price hikes will impact the millions of small, independent businesses and developers that rely on the system as is to make their livelihood. Further, this could prove yet another point of pressure that convinces a small business to make their online presence exclusively in the Facebook walled garden and eschew the web itself.</p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="margin:0px;padding:0.8em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Noto Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(26,26,27)">The web, and global DNS, were envisioned to be run for the public good, and they SHOULD be run for the public good. Deals such as this are an abdication of that mandate; short sighted profit chasing at the expense of all else. Please do not adopt this proposal.</p></div>