Hi ICANN, I'm writing to you to express my opposition to Amendment #3 of the .COM registry agreement. As you can see from my signature below, we've been designing and building we sites for over 22 years. One of the reasons that the web has grown and become so valuable, in my view, is that is affordable. Allowing verisign to increase rates annually for several years will be terrible. Fewer people will renew or buy new domains. We already hear many complaints about the excessive cost of domains as they are priced now. Increasing the cost will not help. There's really no good reason to jack up rates as proposed. I would expect ICANN to be working to keep costs down, so as many people as possible can afford domains. I'm also against verisign being able to sell domains. As written, this seems like unfair competition. Count me in the NO to Amendment 3 column. Thanks, c. ps. You will count this as a NO, won't you? I have to trust that this won't be ignored. -- Christopher Grotke MuseArts Web Design - 22 Years! www.musearts.com 802-348-6802 creators of iBrattleboro.com