Dear Sir/Madam, As the holder of quite some domains for quite some time, I feel like letting those prices rise with the proposed rates is very detrimental to smaller parties and private parties. Making them unable to own (for now the .com domain, but many will follow) any of the more popular domain names. Essentially this proposal gives VeriSign free reign to become a complete monopoly on the .com domain at unreachable prices for anyone but the large enterprise. In the past the .com domain is the standard and this means some very old hobby projects will lose their domain since the they can no longer afford the price and we all know how important names are, changing a domain while retaining traffic is not easy. It sets a very bad precedent, and since .com is part of the “core” of the domain namespace and many others are looking to what going to happen, I feel like there should be a lot of restraint from deviating from the status quo when it might have detrimental effects on the accessibility of .com domains. Since the effects will spread. Kind regards, Erwin de Haan