I have very real issues with the changes being proposed to ICANN's deal with Verisign. First - the price increases allowed in this proposal over the next 10 years are exorbitant, and will do a lot to discourage buying of new and old domains. Second - You are giving pricing control over .COM domains to Verisign, who can also act as a domain registrar. This gives them a unique advantage over all other domain registrars, and is against every principle of a fair marketplace I can think of. Third - Why are you getting $20million from Verisign? What is that being used for? Seems like you have just auctioned off the .COM business to the highest bidder, without having any kind of open transactions. It looks very shady and unethical from the outside. In the past, when you have had an open comment period, you have just decided to ignore any comments critical to your proposals. I strongly suggest that you take public commentary into account. ICANN only remains independent as long as governments allow it to be. Rampant corruption and bad business practice, accompanied by public outcry, will eventually attract government oversight of ICANN, and in a worst-case scenario, dissolution of the body completely. Acting in good faith now would go far to stave off any of that kind of action. Yours sincerely, Karen Metelnick Indiana, USA