I am an independent cartoonist and graphic designer who uses .com domain names for my portfolio site and comic sites. ICANN's recent changes to its contract with Verisign, made without input from those it most effects, allow for wholesale price increases to registrars and expanded privileges for Verisign to act as a registrar itself. This will hurt not only registrars, but also website owners like me, independent creators who rely on their sites for income and freelance opportunities. ICANN needs to make decisions in the interests not of a sole entity like Verisign, but for all the businesses, registrars, and website owners that it serves. -Jackson Ferrell Big J Studios <http://www.bigjstudios.com> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.