[ALAC] Proposed Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement

[Alan Greenberg]

Maureen and Bastiaan have review the .NET Registry Agreement 
revisions and are not recommending and ALAC statement.

There is one comment already pointing out that there the contract 
(both the current one and the revised one) allow for a 10$ increase 
in the price to the registrar per year. Note that for New gTLDs, 
pricing is out of scope of ICANN registry agreements. Based on the 
2011 price of $4.65 and the 2017 price of 8.20, it would appear that 
they have used the full 10% over the term of the last current 
agreement. The 10% rate is the same as that in the current .ORG 
agreement. .COM presumably due to the size of the registrant base is 
price-capped.

The comment also says the contract should not be renewed, but rather 
put out for competitive bidding - something that is not within 
ICANN's ability to decide (and confirmed by the statement calling 
upon government anti-trust action). See 
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-net-renewal-20apr17/2017-April/000000.html.

Alan