April 28, 2019
12:46 a.m.
Hi, I'm the president and main system administrator for Artifex.org. We operate an absolutely shoe-string non-profit internet service; our gross receipts are less than $200 per year. There's no way we could continue to operate with our current budget if we were beholden to unregulated increases in fees. ICANN's done great work for the internet over many years, but this proposed change does the opposite of supporting what's made the internet great for all these years: it's actually going to make it harder for people to use and to maintain sites on it. HJB