<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=""><b class="">Dear ICANN,</b><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-preserver-spaces="true" class="">It’s very short-sighted to raise prices of the .com domains and we strongly disagree with this move. As a customer with so many domains across many registers, we have to strongly agree with </span><a style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(74, 110, 224); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" target="_blank" href="http://namecheap.com/" class="_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink"><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-preserver-spaces="true" class="">NameCheap.com</span></a><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-preserver-spaces="true" class=""> and we support the position </span><a style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(74, 110, 224); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" target="_blank" href="http://namecheap.com/" class="_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink"><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-preserver-spaces="true" class="">NameCheap.com</span></a><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-preserver-spaces="true" class=""> has taken, higher prices affects everyone and especially people that less well off and poor, if anything we say reduce the price of the .com and provide more support and margins for domain registers so that they have room to offer discounts to clients.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-preserver-spaces="true" class="">Higher prices will have a strong and significant impact on the growth of the .com domains and make it less affordable to the end-user. We hope you take this feedback into account especially keeping in mind small business owners and start-ups. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-preserver-spaces="true" class="">Thank you.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-preserver-spaces="true" class=""><b class="">Sincerely,</b></span></div><div style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-preserver-spaces="true" class=""><b class="">DHP Team</b></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>