This is absolutely unjustified.  A .com name is inanimate and holds no service requirement other than records keeping.  There is nothing here but a desire to increase costs to owners with no value add.

I vote no and expect anyone representing the .com owners to vote no to this idea as well.

I am a registrant of a .com domain name.

I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains.

No one other than Verisign want increases in .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.

Bob Miltenberger

President and CEO of Nearshorenetworks
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina United States