These proposed price increases are ridiculous. I have worked in telecom for nearly 2 decades. Price compression has allowed significantly faster speeds for less expense over the course of that time. The rates for voice services are at historic lows. Why is this trend not applicable to TLDs? The technologies and underlying infrastructure leveraged to prop up TLD root servers must be in the same situation. I realize that things have changed a bit from a security standpoint, and that does add some cost to the overall operations. However, these cost increases should be drastically offset by the much lower cost of hardware, the innovation of cloud infrastructure, and aways declining bandwidth costs. I would just like to go on record that I am vehemently opposed to these price increases. There is also the question of the $20 million in funds changing hands from Verisign and ICANN. In these troublesome worldly times, transparency is more imperative than ever, especially when it entails a nonprofit. How is this "payment" to be spent? Regards, Andrew Davis