I am a registrant of many .com domain name over last 10 years, all for mostly personal use.
I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains and no one other than Verisign wants to increase .com prices!
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.