I am a small business owner and come from a family very involved in the IT world for many decades now. For me, this proposed increase in pricing for .com domains and its subsequent handing of a huge control over the domain registries in the internet to Verisign hurts more than it could ever benefit the average internet user. The .com domains have taken an increasing role of importance in the development of the internet as we know it, and this has also been helped by it been as fairly priced as it is right now. By increasing .com registry prices in an aggressive way as it has been proposed, you are providing small businesses like mine with a big blow to their bottom line, disrupting the economic growth of the nation as a whole and potentially having huge repercussions in the way the internet in itself works. We, as internet users and domain registers ask ICANN to intercede for what’s right and do not allow a company to have such power to monopolize one of the most important assets in the internet. The internet will thank you!