Hi, I own and control about 10 .com domains. I am an IT professional. With the prices for IT resources dropping so fast, it does not make sense to increase the cost to have a database entry made to track a registered domain. Unless of course the only reason is to increase profit (when profit should already be increasing with the above mentioned reduction in costs incurred) in a drastic manner and disregard the internet community as a whole. If you look at all other IT industries where there are competitors, the prices tend to continually decrease over time, or the resources offered for the same prices tend to increase. It's unfortunate that there is a monopoly on .com registration so this becomes a captive market. If this goes thru I will unfortunately be put in a position to send in complaints to the various regulators which control various aspects of the Internet or the organisations which are using the Internet. This of course includes Verizon and ICANN. This will probably involve the various EU organisations which are concerned with competition and other consumer matters, since the US government does not seem to be so interested in this, EU or other big governments will hopefully take an interest in such matters. Regards, Aj