cHi, I run a small friends-and-family email and web server. I'm small potatoes compared to your average domain customer. One of my clients is a friend that is a brand-new author with a book recently published. It doesn't earn her very much money yet. I don't ask her to pay...I wait for her to pay what she can. Another is a retiree living in a retirement village in Arizona. He's part of a computer group that's hosted and run by the village. I host his site and the group's site — the same for them. I let them pay me when they can. I am reasonably sure there are millions and millions of "small potatoes" guys like me that would have to make other choices if our .com domains became too expensive. A modest increase would be excellent, but having a single company in charge of all .com prices. Well, I smell the possibility of government-imposed deregulation on the horizon. Like the railroads, airlines, telephone companies, etc. As it is structured now, it seems like one single company is in charge of imposing a price change on anybody that buys the product. This price control would be the very definition of a monopoly. I am hopeful you will apply a measure of restraint and common sense in future decision-making processes. Very respectfully, Ric Fischer