Dear ICANN community,

Usually, TLDs are about businesses and related co-operate activities and such. In my experience, not everything on TLDs are about businesses, where as there might be educational purposes, researches, non-profit projects and etc.. Also it’s time to mention about small start-up businesses in this era.

A lot of improvements and developments have been took place with “small start-ups” that will have a huge impact on the local communities up to every human on earth who have an electronic devices. Those small start-ups usually starts “small”. I’m also an entrepreneur with such ideas and I’m currently using one of the .com TLDs. So, in my experience, managing a TLD was a huge deal for me (not to mention managing emails, dns, etc..) but later on this might get harder with each day.

So, this decision to increase price for .com domains is unfair with my point of view as an entrepreneur since, it highly limits the “small start-up” community and you are doing a harm for the community.

Also with the contract changes, Verisign agreed to pay ICANN an additional $20 million dollars over five years to support ICANN’s initiatives regarding the security and stability of the domain name system. There is no explanation why Verisign did this, how ICANN will spend the money, or who will ensure that the funds are properly spent.

So, please re-consider to decrease prices as soon as possible or give valid reasons for the increases.

Thank you!