<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial;font-size:14px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial;font-size:14px">To Whom It May Concern: </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial;font-size:14px">It is simply unacceptable what you are doing with raising domain name prices, behind closed doors, to further fund your corporate partnerships and profit margins. This is a formal request to keep the internet open and accessible to all. Hiking prices for the most widespread TLD in the world, by ~70% over the next decade, makes it inaccessible to so much of our internet population.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial;font-size:14px">As a company, you are only as strong as your user base, and therefore have a responsibility towards us. Know that we will fight, and we will find ways around your constraints and blatant abuses of power. You are 1%; we are 99%. ICANN & Verisign will crumble as soon as the populace decides you are no longer worth our time or money.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Arial;font-size:14px">DO WHAT IS RIGHT, or we will make sure you fail.</div><div class="bloop_container"><div class="bloop_frame"> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_signature"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:14px"><b>--<br></b></span></font><div><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:14px"><b>Abel Thomas</b></span></font></div></div></body></html>