I'm from Trinidad and Tobago. We're a small island developing state in the Latin America/Caribbean region. Our ability to register domain names is already affected by the unfavorable exchange rate to USD.

A glance at the rates at which people register new domains for our region will surely reflect that it's already less likely for our businesses to create their own .Com websites.

I believe that increasing the price of registration of new addresses will have a disproportionate negative impact on the stakeholders and potential stakeholders in our region.

Full disclosure: I use the Internet but I am not currently a .com registrant. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains.

I believe that the current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified.

I believe that ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest and has a moral obligation to consider users in SIDS as well as regions that are not economically advantaged.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter,

Alejandro Guzman

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago