To Whom It May Concern, Reading the proposed amendment to the .COM Registry Agreement, I must first state my disappointment with how this whole process has been handled by ICANN. I very much understand Verisign's fondness for keeping this whole proposed amendment as secret as possible for as long as possible, but ICANN should strive to increase transparency, not try to minimize it. It leaves the community with the (probably right) impression that matters are not really handled as a community, but rather by a select few behind closed doors. I hope this is a singular oversight on ICANN's part, and not an indicator of procedure going forward. Regarding the content of the proposed amendment, I can not see how, if I read it correctly, an up to 70% increase in domain name costs over the coming 10 years is in any way motivated. Costs of maintaining the necessary infrastructure has dropped over the last decade, and will continue to drop as technology, convergence and automation improves. This should mandate that prices should drop going forward, not increase. A natural correction for inflation is maybe necessary, but that would be in single percentage points over the same time period regardless of what model for estimating inflation is used. Best regards, Sebastian Storholm ICT Architect sebastian@storholm.fi