Dear ICANN,

Internet is a true enabler of democracy and increasingly becoming a tool that helps poor people to bridge the gap with rich. We trust you to be the guardian and safe guard this precious thingie called 'Internet', not just for now but future too. Please do the right thing and fall for pressures from vested commercial interests.

I oppose Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement. I believe that allowing wholesale prices for .com domains to rise 72% over 12 years, which is far more than the rate of inflation and also far more than Verisign's underlying costs of maintaining the registry could possibly increase by, will dramatically hurt the internet ecosystem. It will especially hurt small website operators, like myself, and will discourage internet users from creating blogs and personal pages, with the end result of reducing democratization of the internet.

regards,
Karthik Karuppannan.