I am a registrant of a few .com domain names, for a small business, a high school reunion, a church, and personal email. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry – it has no business dictating the price. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. 
Sincerely,  
Michael Snyder
Seattle, WA