Hello, ICANN Directors,

I represent a non-profit organization who provides environmental services to a New Hampshire lake community, including:

• lake water quality testing
• volunteer and paid hosts at the boating ramp who educate boaters on safe practices and check for invasive species
• volunteers who patrol the shoreline to spot, identify, and take steps to remediate any invasive species 
• programs to promote 

          -  loon nesting and habitat for other endangered species

          -  discontinuance of the use of lead fishing sinkers which kill loons

          -  planting and nurturing of healthy shoreline vegetation

          -  use of lake-friendly household products

• shoreline tree and beach management and more

Our lake serves as the town water source through wells dug in a sandy esker which runs across most of the center of the lake. Through careful lake management, education of our wealthy visitor population and lake property owners, the Little Sunapee Protective Association, now in the 50th year of lake stewardship, has been able to maintain the lake as a fully recreational water source, including unrestricted swimming and boating, as well as a primary source of drinking water. The status of the lake is oligotrophic (highest quality of water clarity, low phosphorous, and good oxygen content).

We, like many, many other non profit organizations, rely upon our http://www.littlesunapee.org website to promote lake health programs, to extend our financial support, and to publish communications.

We respectfully ask the ICANN organization to assist non-profit organizations in their difficult mission of public education by continuing to offer price protection for the .org domain. It would be a great financial hardship to purchase a domain at the current dollar figure for unprotected domains such as .com.

Jean Twombly

Board Member 

Little Sunapee Protective Association

PO Box 1563

New London, NH  03257