[ALAC] Proposed Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement

[Maureen Hilyard]

But really Alan, would we be expecting the ordinary end-user to be
analysing these costs and other sections of the document in a similar way,
without any prior expert knowledge about the ICANN contractual bidding
process, previous contracts and other details you have outlined? Its
outside of our scope.

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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