I am writing to express my opposition to proposed Amendment 3 of the .COM Registry Agreement. I am the registrant of multiple .com domains. Given the current issues with the proposed .ORG takeover, it would be inadvisable to consider any changes to other TLDs until those issues are resolved. Furthermore, were it not for those issues, the proposed .COM price hike is unjustified. Although I am not privy to Verisign's financials, I have seen it estimated that their costs per domain registered range from $1 to $3.50. This gives them a current profit margin of ~60%. Given that ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest, not in Verisign's interest, and that a profit margin of 60% is extremely high in any indistry, ICANN should instead be proposing to lower .COM prices. Michael Buckley Portland, Oregon