ICANN - I own some .COM domains. I just found out about your proposed Amendment 3. I also just found out that the public comment period has been open since Jan. 3rd and has only 4 days remaining. Had it not been for my registrar, Namecheap, I would have never known about this. I don't know what the issue is with all the secrecy. Perhaps it's the sweetheart deal of $20 million you're getting from Verisign. In any case, your proposed changes to the .COM TLD pricing structure benefit no one. Well, I suppose the changes benefit ICANN and Verisign but they certainly don't benefit anyone else. The price increases don't benefit the registrars because they'll just have to pass the price increases on to the registrants. And the price increases don't benefit the registrants. They'll either have to eat the price increases or pass them along as a cost of doing business to their customers. My suggestion is that you do the right thing and keep the .COM pricing structure the way it is. Rick Smith