I would like to voice my disagreement with the proposed increases in costs for the .com domains. While major corporates may have the funds to pay for ever increasing prices to protect their branding; my self and most of my clients, are small businesses who do not have this luxury. There are no justifications for the proposed increases within the Brief apart from the price hasn't gone up since 2012. ICANNs is supposed to govern the domain name system for the public interest. What is the reasoning behind providing additional funds to a private entity? Dave Withnall