Proposed New Registry Agreement

[Howard Hoffman <hh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN:

The proposed new .biz Registry Agreement should not be approved as 
is.  ICANN has an appropriate and useful monopoly on the creation and 
regulation of TLD's.  It is also appropriate that the current (or any 
future) registry manager has a monopoly on that function.  However, it is 
entirely inappropriate for a registry manager, as a monopoly, to have the 
ability to set domain registration/renewal pricing.  For the registry 
manager to have the ability to charge differing amounts for different 
domains is entirely inappropriate, as well.
Please do not approve these proposed domain registry revisions for this or 
any other registries.
Howard Hoffman
Website Owner (honolulu.us, ppcincome.com, hiosilver.com, sportswater.com)
Palo Alto, CA, USA