I‘m operating a a dozen .com domains for myself and clients. I consider annual subscriptions of USD 5.- to 15.- as reasonable. Where .com, .org., .net, .biz should linger at 8.- to 12.- a year. I am opposed to the increase in price of particular domains. If ICANN needs more founding, burden should be distributed over all domains - if? In order to have a url, common sense dictates that you purchase the same url in all the categories - .com, .org,.net and ones with similar spelling. So it is easy for one website - commercial, charitable, educational - to have to have pay for 5 urls a year. Quite a Budget for SMB, SoHo or NonGov. Best Regards Carl Christian ................ Carl Christian Hauser [http://www.itassistance.biz/image/logo/In-2C-14px-mail-carl.hauser.png] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianhauser> Digital Adaption Pilot Arkenziel und IT Assistance sind Unternehmungen von CM Concept Management AG Lange Gasse 6<x-apple-data-detectors://4/1> 4052 Basel<x-apple-data-detectors://4/1> Schweiz