Dear ICANN: I am owner of over 700 domains, mostly .COM and I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified due to the fact that technology and services should decrease in value over time and not increase. Only products and services that rely heavily on "raw materials" to produce or operate should have an increase comparable to the cost of those materials or equivalent to the inflation rate. Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry - it has no business dictating the price, and no justification in increasing the price. Brent Alan Brashear, Director of AlanBuilt Belle Plaine, KS