ICANN, Please adopt price controls on .COM and other original TDLs. I run a small web development & hosting company part-time and many of the sites I build are for disadvantaged and/or low-income persons who are using their domains to promote small business efforts. These are yoga instructors, independent contractors, seniors, students, artists and musicians -- all of whom enjoy the legitimacy of having a dedicated space on the Internet to promote themselves and their contributions to society. I enjoy giving them something to be proud of. I often treat my web development company like a charity and eat a lot of the costs, specifically, I maintain ownership of the domains so my tech-illiterate clients don't have to be bothered with the burden of keeping them registered (for example, a friend lost her domain name and it took three years to get it back). Some of these domains I've had for nearly 20 years, a long time since I received payment for the web site they still use. The slow creep of prices is making it difficult to continue what I think is a valuable service to my community. This year is the first time I have released domain names because I can't afford it. These domains, if my clients allow them to expire, will be basically gone forever, swallowed up by domain squatters and ransomed off. Please help me continue to make the Internet a place for everyone, not just giant corporations. Please adopt price controls on common TLDs. Thank you, Brian Hilmers