Hi,

While I am not directly opposed to the idea of a price rise for .COM domains, I /am/ opposed to the idea that a for-profit company should be the sole authority to manage .COM domains, and thus receive the majority of the benefit of any price rise.

I understand there are solid reasons to only have one entity managing the space so that splitting responsibility might be challenging for many reasons.

I would like to suggest that the space be managed by an not-for-profit entity that has the best interests of Internet users in mind.

I would like to nominate Mozilla as an entity that might be worth considering:

- they have a strong track record of protecting the rights of Internet users

- they have the experience and the systems in place to manage large-scale Internet projects

- users can be confident that any revenue they generate will go back into other projects like Firefox which benefit everyone.

Thanks for your consideration,