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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Sirs,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am against this proposed amendment As a small business owner, the prospect of a 7% a year price hike for each domain I own (and I own several) fills me with dread. It risks dissuading people from domain name purchases.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In addition, I feel allowing Verisign to operate as a domain name registrar provides them with an unfair competitive advantage over existing registrars. I would also like to see more transparency about how ICANN plans to spend the Verisign
investment.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In short, this idea is not well thought through, and I hope you will reconsider.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yours sincerely</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
Sharon Hall</p>
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