I am a registrant of many .com domains, and am against the proposed price increases to .COM domains. Verisign merely operate the .COM top-level-domain – it has NO business dictating prices. How do you justify increasing the .com domain names fees? What is this huge budget spent on? How was it possible to run the organization 10 years ago when the domain names were significantly lower amount—and now these huge increases? ICANN is supposed to govern the domain name system in the public interest. You are not supposed to be a corporation and push your profits to the maximum, but rather keep the internet safe and accessible place to all. Taking this step makes it accessible to a lot fewer people. The price should remain the same, and even decrease over time, with more people buying domains. If this goes through, I will definitely be dumping most of my .coms AND encouraging other online entrepreneurs, influencers and marketers to do the same. Your proposal is absurd and frankly, unacceptable. Miss Gioia