Please do not allow an open-ended price increases for top level domains! The chilling and stultifying effects for the health of the internet business community, not to mention all the unknown and unintended consequences, will be widespread and devastating. The internet is a vibrant and diverse community: raising the barrier to entry for these top-level domains will give significant and unfair advantage to entities with a bunch of money, and keep those most important informational, countercultural, artistic, progressive, creative and activist voices from expression through our only truly egalitarian medium: the internet. As a small business owner who depends on the internet for the whole of my livelihood and that of my employees, raising the prices of top level domains would be disastrous for my company and my clients’ businesses. Keep domain registry prices down where they belong: affordable for every individual. It’s against the spirit and intention of a free and open internet to raise financial barriers to entry beyond the means of every individual who has something to say or sell. Now is your chance to protect the internet for now and the future; please don’t squander it. Allow no more than a 10% increase in top-level domain prices per year! Thank you, Kelly Bell (917) 446-1555 --------------- Gotham City Drupal @gothamdrupal | @Kelly