Hello,

I appreciate this opportunity given, in order to be able to express my thoughts on this really important topic.

By now your regulatory must know this is a sensitive matter to all: registries, registrants, daily users of the Internet. (I know that precisely that importance and the huge interest involved is actually the main reason for the year-to-year increases in the pricing, whereas no substantial reason can justify the increases, nor their rates over time.) Changes in prices cannot be masked as regulatory and security measures. Attempts in that direction will affect many in their free initiative on the market as fair traders. The end users will be affected mostly, since the costs of using sites that deliver useful content for different audiences will ultimately increase, the admins/owners of the sites will be forced to set-up fees, or increase them. This is leading to restrictions of the access to useful and needed information in fields such as education, humanitaries, earth sciences, etc., especially in regions where even cents matter.

Please re-think, reconsider. Some things do not cost money. Their costs are lives, their costs are dreams, their cost is prosperity.

Please act responsibly.