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<p>Dear sirs,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I am a french domainer : I invest in domain names as a business. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified : the other extension in my domain portfolio is dot fr, with a rate lower than $5 USD and the registry AFNIC offers a very good domain
management.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest : how can ICANN accept that a registry with 140.000.000 domains (VERISIGN) is more expensive than a registry with less than 4.000.000 domains (AFNIC) ???? Most of the costs are fixed
cost and the dot com users should pay less than $4 USD.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Philippe FRANCK<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Domainium<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">philippe@domainium.fr<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tel +33 607 24 26 12<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.domainium.fr/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">www.domainium.fr</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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