Stability of the most-used TLD, .com, is important for the stability of the internet as a whole. Allowing Verisign to increase .com prices up to 70% over the next 10 years will negatively affect domain registrants like me, and for what benefit? More corporate profit? When a 20 million dollar payment includes no clear plan for the use of the funds and no oversight, it sounds less like a payment and more like a bribe. Provide a clear and specific explanation for this money and how this contract change with Verisign is beneficial to the internet and its users. How does giving the most powerful TLD operator more control, now as a registrar, ensure stability and promote competition? This change seems to directly conflict with ICANN's mission. Austen Morgan