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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I am a registrant of a .com domain name. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">No one other than Verisign want increases in .COM prices.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">– it has no business dictating the price.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Aijaz Balkhi</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p>ITSSN.com<br><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Los Angeles, California United States</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>