ICANN should not grant Verisign wholesale .COM domain name price increases. As a small, internet-base, business, annual registration of my domain names is an unavoidable cost of doing business. I rely on ICANN to play their role of a non-profit entity with responsibility for fair domain name management. By granting Verisign the right to virtually print money with annual price raises having no basis in need to cover growing costs, service expansion, or other relevant costs, ICANN is not fulfilling its role. Verisign, and any other business, needs to be profitable, but with known low costs, current profitability, and no valid reason for higher pricing on .COM domain names, the cost to registrants like myself should not increase. If ICANN is receiving money from Verisign to push through new pricing and more lax regulation on them, I would like to know how that can not be called a bribe. With the past 6 months' events in the USA, I would think the term "quid pro quo" should be discussed and considered at ICANN before selling out all us registrants that rely on simple domain name registrations for survival of our businesses. Paul Kautz, Active Source, Inc.