Last month, ICANN, the organization that oversees domain names, announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. who operate the .COM top-level-domain (TLD). ICANN made these changes IN SECRET, without consulting or incorporating feedback from the ICANN community or Internet users. Although ICANN has a history of making similar deals behind closed doors, and also of ignoring unified opposition against such action, I believe this is counter-productive and unfair, given that *.COM domains make up 40% of all registered domain names online*. I, and millions of Internet users, are adamantly opposed this greedy price gouging and demand this price increase proposal be reversed. James Thurman