The proposed amendment will make it difficult for small enterprises to own .com domains. Many individuals rely on the internet to offer services, including freelancing, and this will just make it harder to make a living across the board. This will hurt people from the developing nations more, since their currencies are weaker against the dollar. There is really no reason whatsoever to increase prices on a yearly basis, Verisign is merely the registrar and not the owner of the domain. Furthermore, once this proposal goes through, the floodgates will open and everyone will try to increase prices on all domains on a regular basis. The internet will quickly become un-democratic and will only be dominated by bigger corporations. -- *Pallav Nawani* Ironcode Gaming --- Website: http://www.ironcode.com