I am writing to voice disagreement with your recent decision to allow Verisign to increase pricing in exchange for them “donating” money to ICANN. While I support ICANN’s attempt to improve the system overall, this boils down to a bribe in exchange for making an incredible amount of money by jacking the prices up beyond the reach of the every day person. I remember when .COM domains were $70 a year and this made it unreasonable at that time to purchase a domain for my own personal and business uses. I also object to allowing Verisign to become a registrar. This operation blends the lines too much between operator and seller. The system we have now works and prevents anyone from becoming too powerful again. I also commented on your attempts to lift price controls on .ORG, .INFO and .BIZ and hope that this time you won’t just be wiping out my comment. I support price controls for domains to make the internet a fair and level playing field for starting a business or even just running a personal website. Don’t allow corporate interests drive us back to an unaffordable state. Regards, Jesse J. Salens C: (313) 218-0351 E: jesse@salens.org<mailto:jesse@salens.org> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10