ICANN group, Hello. Please help protect free speech and do not increase the prices too highly of domains, for the sake of us independent artists. Business names are one thing, perhaps EVEN ".com" addresses would be reasonable to charge more of businesses. But please consider our positions as artists, reporters and other important cultural creatives that contribute to society's deeper explorations of our understanding of life. My significant other and myself both run several sites in order to maintain our freedom of creation. We make new and popular artforms on several .coms of our own ownership. It is the safest way to protect and control our own information which is our right and also to the benefit of our audience, who appreciates when we are not censored. Since YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Google and the alternatives that offer space (*under their selfish terms*) to domain ownership can and do censor our artwork (and those of our peers) for completely nebulous reasons, it is not fair to also make the only alternative (personal domain ownership) even more expensive and unavailable to the average person than it already is. If you want to become more like China, then I guess that is the path you may be on. And perhaps you cannot help that due to political and monetary pressures. But if you go this route, know that it is a surrender of that which remains of the free world's highest ideals of freedom of thought, expression and speech. And that seems like a terrible mistake for humanity! Please reconsider this decision lest those who pressure you to make it can get away with even more such attacks on society and its well earned freedoms. Warm regards, Maxeem