Most of our clients are VERY small businesses and nonprofits and are not supportive of price increases. As I handle renewals for them and usually pay for them and wait for reimbursement, a price increase is a hardship. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains. No one other than Verisign wants increases in .COM prices. The current rate of $7.85 is already far more than justified. Verisign is merely your manager of the .COM Registry – it has no business dictating the price. ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. Craig de Fasselle Springboro