Dear Mrs. Namazi and ICANN, My name is Daniel Scrugham and I live in Knoxville, TN. I am writing to provide my thoughts about the new .COM Amendment (Amendment 3) that is being considered. As a seventeen-year-old podcaster, it is difficult to get regular internet traffic. However, I have been successful in driving traffic to my podcast website, earlyinvestingpodcast.com. As you know, .COMs are by far the most widely used address, and unless you are a nonprofit, you must have a .COM in order for people to visit your website. I was able to start my podcast cheaply due to the low price of the .COM. This has allowed me to deliver great podcasts and build my audience. Unfortunately, adopting the new Amendment 3 will result in my annual renewal price will be driven up dramatically. This will be especially devastating for me as a seventeen-year-old who runs a free podcast. I use my website to serve people and I have not made much money from it (I have overall lost money). If this amendment is adopted, it will be far more difficult to justify operating this website, plus others I have plans for with different domains. I know ICANN will benefit from this amendment and gain $20 million dollars over the next five years, and I am sure you all will use that money well and it would be a great benefit to you and your organization. However, it will come at the expense of tens of thousands of regular people like me who own domains and try to do good to the world with our domains. The majority of internet content today is created for free, and this new amendment will sharply decrease creativity and the magic that goes into making the internet so special. I urge you to not allow this amendment to pass, for the sake of not only the hard-working content creators but the billions of viewers who greatly benefit from free content online. Sincerely, *Daniel Scrugham, Host of Early Investing Podcast*