I, too, care about reducing the barriers to the open web. As a registrant of several small scale .com, .net and .org domains, I am opposed to the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of $7.85 is already too high - as technology moves forward, these prices should decrease and not the opposite. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest, and not be a slave to corporate interests such as Verisign.