As owner of several domain names, I strongly oppose the proposed amendments. ICANN has repeatedly implied that new TLDs allow for deregulation of the domain registration system, since customers are supposed to move to a new operator if they don't like the policies (e.g. pricing) of their current TLD operator. This argument does not hold water, even granting the assumption that the free market behaves according to the public interest, since the market in question certainly is not free. The simple fact is that one cannot change a domain name: one can only delete their old domain name and start at zero from a new one. This implies that the market is not free at all: each TLD operator is a monopolist in their own namespaces. Deregulation of this non-free market cannot be in the public interest, so I urge the ICANN to reconsider their current destructive course of action.