I oppose Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement. I believe that allowing wholesale prices for .com domains to rise more than 70% over 12 years will dramatically hurt the internet ecosystem. This rate of increase is far more than the rate of inflation and also far more than Verisign's underlying costs of maintaining the registry could possibly increase by. It will especially hurt small website operators like myself - and will discourage internet users from creating blogs and personal pages. Verisign reported a 69.4% operating margin in Q1 2019, so they clearly do not need the extra revenue from this price hike. ICANN has granted a monopoly over .com to Verisign and ICANN has a duty to every internet user to carefully regulate this monopoly to prevent abuse by Verisign. A policy that allows price increases tracking the rate of inflation (but no higher) may make sense in the future. However, right now, Verisign is already collecting far more from their .com monopoly than any company would be able to in a competitive market [1]. It's simply not right to allow them to raise prices at this time. Mike..... [1] For example, Alphabet, a highly successful player in a very high-margin industry, has an operating margin of around 25%. Verisign's operating margin is over 2.75 times that. http://michaelscepaniak.com