<html><head><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="">Briefly, I oppose amendment as proposed, specifically the provisions that support:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Verisign and </span><abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ICANN</abbr><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> may agree to amend the .COM Registry Agreement to permit an increase to the price for .COM registry services, up to a maximum of 7 percent in each of the final four years of each six-year period (the first six-year period commenced on October 26, 2018).</span></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Verisign’s role should be to perform a public service. Increases should be restricted to no more than inflationary adjustments and there should be no room for potential profit-taking from such service.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Mitch Allen</div></body></html>