I am not sure that there is much point to this exercise since I previously submitted a comment regarding the .org contract and sale, but you ignored it and the overwhelming majority of opinion and more insultingly described them as spam. Nonetheless...

I work for a company that owns and operates businesses on multiple .com domains and am writing on my own behalf.

I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains, for all the same reasons I was against lifting the price cap for .org names.

The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified, as the actual costs to manage the database and servers is approximately one third of that amount and will likely continue to decrease into the future.

Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry with a perpetual right of renewal, granting it monopoly power. As such, you should maintain the price regulations that have been in place, since Verisign is not subject to market forces or a competitive bidding process.

ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest, not for Verisign or for the $20 million kickback they have proposed to you in order to renegotiate a contract that has 4 years remaining on it.

I am also against any implementation of URS to any of the established TLDs as the UDRP process has proven to be more than adequate at resolving domain name/trademark disputes.

Finally, I am utterly disgusted by the failure to follow the multi-stakeholder based, consensus focused processes that ICANN is supposed to follow, as well as the actions of current and former staff that indicate the blatant appearance of, if not actual, corruption.

Count me as shocked if my comments are actually taken into consideration and acted upon

David Riordan
Tampa, Florida United States