Variable Domain Pricing??? ICANN Full of Criminals???

[Kelly Pitts <hepamatic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello ICANN,
 
Okay......here we go again with ICANN chicanery. So 
who is paying you under the table?  It only costs $2 measly dollars to 
administer a domain and you want to allow registrars to charge whatever they 
wish?  Huh?  Sounds like a BIG battle comin' boys!
 
Here again in 2008 with your applied rhetoric and 
sneaky methods you are trying to shove through new rules that will destroy the 
Internet. Yes....DESTROY!  AND, you only give a measly 45 comment period?  That 
is so there is no opposition.  Remember, you have tried this before and the 
public rose up and quashed it.  Now you want to do it again?  Why?  I say it's 
for greed.  
 
If you allow variable pricing to occur the same 
thing will happen to the new extensions that happened to .BIZ.....they will 
fall 
on their faces and be worthless domain extentions.   How long also before you 
apply this to .COM?????????
 
Also, why would I start a company with an $8 domain 
and then allow a registrar to tell me that it is now $5,000 since I have been 
successful.  I won't be taking that chance.....thanks, but no 
thanks.
 
I can only assume you are getting paid under the 
table as well to allow this.  It reeks of real world real estate where builders 
pay off local gov't officials so that they can bypass codes or laws.   It is no 
different here.  It seems a criminal element is at work here.  Why not?  The 
registrars are now stealing domains from their customers, so maybe you have 
decided to become criminals too like them.  
 
I thought the Net was supposed to be a level 
playing field.  Now you want to make it where only big business and the wealthy 
can do business on the Net? What about the little guy?  Did you forget about 
them?
 
Trademark holders too will be held at ransom if 
they want thier trademark then the registrars can say, "Oh.....you would like 
your TM domain?  Ok....that's $20,000 per extension....thanks so much.  It will 
be double that next year sir".
 
Another thing, you want to do this as the world is 
going into a recession/depression also.  If anything prices of all domains 
should be coming down.....NOT GOING 
UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I really just feel like suing the hell out of 
you.....really.   These criminal games ICANN has 
been playing MUST STOP!  Can you say antitrust?  Or, maybe class action on down 
the line when every unsuspecting domain owner gets shafted.
 
I say, "FIRE EVEYONE AT ICANN AND START OVER".  
This is so suspicous that it can't be anything other than criminal.
 
May you burn in hell for playing games with 
people's lives.  That is how mad I am.
 Johnny