My contribution below:
Dear ICANN,
Does the ICANN committee wish to attain notoriety by being known as the very few that damaged so many in so little time, through these proposals?
Put aside for a minute your personal agendas, capitalist driving force and current perception of the domain market's particulars.
Removing the pricing caps and allowing the Registries to facilitate tiered pricing would be a disastrous move. How would each domain name, be it .ORG,.BIZ,.INFO be evaluated? Who would weigh the millions of domains worldwide and tag them with a separate or approximate price?
We are not opposed to price-increasing, within reason. It has not been a long time since Verisign/Network Solutions charged $50 per year per domain. The Internet moved forward by removing the Registrar monopolies and by keeping prices competitive.
We are opposed to the predictable anarchy, chaos and across-the-board destruction that will occur if those loopholes are not closed and if the proposed agreements are implemented as they are, without ensuring protection of the end-users, commercial operators and investors. Legal battles can and *will* carry on for years at a full world scale, by everyone who would be affected by this committee's single act of foresight lacking.
You're holding the button to the first Internet War - and it will truly be global this time.
Sincerely,
Theo Develegas
President
Acroplex Technologies LLC
http://acroplex.com