Dear sir,

I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. They are already significantly more expensive that the price of domains in the UK an other TLDs that I register. Given the volume and level of automation involved, I can see no correlation between the charge to me and the underlying costs incurred.

I am a registrant of several .com domain names. 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.

If ICANN were providing other features to limit the cybersquatting and other domain name ownership issues, then I might be more accepting of a price increase. As it stands, it feels like exploitation of the internet community

Bruce Devlin
Chiddingfold, UK