To pull a quote from your own "Who We Are" section of your website: "ICANN is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers. Through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet." This shady act of business is a complete contradiction about how you describe yourself. Allowing a single entity wave money in your face to amend in their behalf at the expense of the public whom you claim to benefit does NOT promote competition and growth of the internet. This is merely a "loophole" to monopolize on a technology that was created for everybody and to connect the entire world together in a way that was once never imaginable. I question your "leadership" when this sort of practice happens. As an American, who loves my country dearly, I have to deal with this sort of stuff from my own government and her numerous, questionable organizations who constantly steal and adulterate the privacy of not only our own. but of the entire world. I also have to deal with corporate buy outs on a daily basis from our skewed dual party system. Just like our government system was never meant to be run this way and our being our being oppressed buy this crony driven brainwashed system, you are acting no better. While there are many people around this country and this world who are struggling to keep their head above water, you are concerned about squeezing more money out of everybody and tipping the already unbalanced world more so in the wrong direction. I not only call for a denouncing of the amendment, I also call for the public to investigate your leadership and your intentions for the "public-benefit" you claim to have. -Kurtis Orlando, Florida