To get close to doubling the wholesale price of a domain name within six years (as indicated in the summary) without specific and demonstrated need (a registry is a registry! and cloud storage and computing prices are plummeting, as are those of security solutions) is damaging to individuals as well as startup and small businesses, who will need to think harder about whether to spend twice the cost per year of staking out and trying new ideas, as well as being frankly exasperating in the current economic climate and considering their being the sole authority for this kind of domain. Allowing people to register domain names 10 years in advance at that price is not a solution, except for those with ready cash instead of a budgeted line item. I hasten to add that whatever inconvenience and harm it may bring to those in relative economic security, it could be disastrous to those closer to the margin, who need their domain name before anything else of value can be attached to it, and so could be prevented from entering the market or forced from it. It will not only impoverish them, but impoverish the web, which thrives on the easy exchange not only of business but of passion projects and so on, relatively in the reach of anyone. To increase price so rapidly in so short a time is disastrous for the culture and nature of the web. It also smacks of pay for nothing, again, without a real, demonstrated (and not surmised) increase in cost, and reasonable cost at that. Please reconsider and further establish, restrict, or simply abolish the planned price increases. Thank you, Dan Nicholls