I am a registrant of many .com domain name over last 10 years, all for mostly personal use. I am against the proposed price increase to .COM domains and no one other than Verisign wants to increase .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.