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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Verisign has not met their burden to show that price increases are necessary to protect the registry infrastructure or improve services. By all appearances, this is merely an effort to extract profits from a captive market. This will drive out innovators, and smaller companies who cannot compete at the higher prices.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Please make every effort to keep registry pricing as low as possible.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Bryan M. Griffith, J.D.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Sanborn, Brandon, Duvall & Bobbitt Co., L.P.A.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>2515 West Granville Road<br>Columbus, Ohio 43235<br>614/889-2531 ext. 140<br>614/889-1442 (fax)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a href="mailto:bgriffith@sbdblaw.com" target="_blank" title="blocked::mailto:cbobbitt@sbdblaw.commailto:cbobbitt@sbdblaw.com"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1f497d">BGriffith@SBDBLaw.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a href="http://www.sbdblaw.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1f497d">www.sbdblaw.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#202020">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>