Hello,
Please reconsider your deal with Verisign as .com is much more than a domain for commercial ventures, it has a global defacto status as a place to go and it is used as a domain for all kinds of community and personal projects. I don't agree that the price increase guides registering to other domains. It only hurts the smalltime people trying to brand themselves equally to the bigtime people.

Thank you,
Harri Halonen