I am the owner of several dot com domains and I am opposed to the proposal to allow Verisign to increase wholesale prices of dot com domains. It has been estimated that the true cost for Verisign of running the dot com registry is somewhere between $1 to $3.50 per domain per year. It would seem the current wholesale price of $7.85 is more than adequate to run the registry and generate a fair profit. If the proposed increases are applied in full then a price increase to $10.26 in a mere 6 years would be 30%. Additionally according to figures for the US inflation rate at https://inflationdata.com/ the proposed 7% incremental increases are more than double the current annual inflation rate (for 2019). Verisign does not own the dot com domain space. It's role is to provide technical services. It is already well compensated for the services it provides and thus higher fees for Verisign are not justified. Noel Springer