To whom it may concern, I am a registrant of a .com domain name and I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. The cost of running a database, amortized over the millions of registrants, does not justify any higher price. A higher price would have to be considered monopolistic price gouging. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. The public interest is served by keeping the price for domain registration low enough for normal people to pay. The current price is already high enough. Edward LeBlanc Karlsruhe, Germany