ICANN should explain in detail what it will do with the $20 Million
it will receive from Verisign, how those funds will be apportioned
and what measures will be put in place to assure that the funds are
not misused. The planned price increase should be frozen until those
plans and safeguards are made public and opened for comment.
If ICANN cannot or will not make its plans for the funds public,
then the proposed 7% annual price increase on the .COM TLD would
amount to an extortion racket bilking the general public and
registrants.
Josh Dintzer