<html><head></head><body><pre class=""><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM"><font face="Helvetica" class="">Hello,</font></p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM"><font face="Helvetica" class="">I would like to voice my opposition to Proposed Amendment 3.</font></p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM"><font face="Helvetica" class="">I believe that the global DNS registration system should be run primarily as a public concern.</font></p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM"><font face="Helvetica" class="">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.</font></p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM"><font face="Helvetica" class="">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.</font></p><font face="Helvetica" class="">ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest.
Silvan Bucher
Luzern, Switzerland</font></pre></body></html>